19 © FORRESTER RESEARCH, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. What else can M&E firms do to improve their use of the cloud? Key Recommendations Secure your approach through Zero Trust. The principles of Zero Trust must be adopted during development, deployment, and migrations, not after. Reactively managing for cloud security will be a losing battle and impede your organization’s initiative. Start by eliminating implicit trust and instead treat all entities as untrusted. Enforce least-privilege access across human, machine, application, and computing infrastructure identities. Implement comprehensive security monitoring through specific cloud security monitoring solutions to overcome ephemeral asset gaps. Finally, attach and enforce cloud security through cloud management solutions. These foundations build the foundation for a Zero Trust cloud. Develop a cloud platform group. Similar to the federated cloud strategy of adoption, a cloud platform team should be created to build out automation, develop and identify needed policies, and bulk out internal skills. Different from a traditional IT team, a platform team must continuously strive to exceed developer and customer expectations. A focus on automation, policy, and skills will ensure your organization overcomes some of the more difficult-to-solve cloud challenges.
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