NETWORKS & APPLICATIONS
there needs to be more experienced cloud security professionals . The Dublinheadquartered company will also launch a new apprenticeship programme in 2022 in the UK to encourage young people into careers in IT and security . Some of the company ’ s new hires will be apprentices , who will receive on-the-job training in addition to classroom tutorials . Ronan Murphy , CEO of CWSI , says : “ We ’ ve seen how the IT skills gap has negatively impacted the industry and plan to play our part in encouraging young people to build a career in IT and security in particular .” According to VMWare , companies facing a shortage of such skills must look at specialised Cloud Security Posture Management ( CSPM ) solutions to augment and help their understaffed security teams scale cloud knowledge and best practices across the wider organization . With most CSPM solutions enabling standard cloud best practices and compliance frameworks out-of-the box , security teams can quickly help automate identification , reporting , and alerting of cloud misconfiguration risks to developer teams .
According to Gartner , 70 % of all enterprise workloads will be deployed in cloud infrastructure and platform services by 2023 , up from 40 % in 2020 . Under this paradigm shift , agent-based solutions are ill-suited to meet the increased complexity and ephemeral nature of the cloud . Exhausted , enterprise security teams are turning to new platforms .
Cloud native platforms Addressing this issue is Israeli security company Orca Security . Its Cloud- Native Application Protection Platform ( CNAPP ) aims to simplify the detection and prioritisation of security issues in minutes ,
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