{"id":105838,"date":"2020-02-07T06:00:08","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T14:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/?p=105838"},"modified":"2020-07-09T16:38:51","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T23:38:51","slug":"cc-working-in-cloud-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/cc-working-in-cloud-security\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cloud\u2019s Sunny Future: The Rewards of Working in Cloud Security"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Vinay Venkataraghavan, <\/span>Cloud CTO, Prisma Cloud<\/span><\/p>\n

As a part of the research and development team at Palo Alto Networks, my work involves building out security automation capabilities for customers in the public cloud. My job marries R&D with building both our products and our relationships with cloud partners and customers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Major enterprises today see the cloud\u2019s infinite capacity and are rushing to move their businesses to it. But there\u2019s more than opportunity in the cloud \u2014 there\u2019s also an inherent risk<\/a>. The industry is moving quickly enough that many customers aren\u2019t prepared to face the evolution of the threats in the cloud. With a lack of training and understanding, they take for granted that the cloud is inherently secure. But there\u2019s tremendous complexity in ensuring that security. Many are willing to invest in securing their assets in the cloud and understand why it\u2019s important. However, they also know that providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, and Google are putting their resources into solving the security puzzle, so they believe security is a given. The reality is, using the cloud comes with a shared responsibility<\/a> for keeping it secure. Too many rush into it without having the right security posture. If time and effort aren\u2019t invested in ensuring that the right security practices have been adopted, businesses are susceptible to cyber threats.<\/span><\/p>\n

Today, about 97% of IT spending is in on-premises data centers, meaning that only 3% has proliferated in the cloud. It seems prevalent now, but we\u2019ve really only scratched the surface.<\/span><\/p>\n

Those of us working in this space know that soon, cloud usage will be ubiquitous, affecting everything we touch. The simple request, \u201cAlexa, how\u2019s the weather today?\u201d involves thousands of containers in the cloud, and usage of such smart devices is growing by the day. Everything we touch and interact with on a daily basis, from our phones and computers to our personal assistant devices, cars, and even our refrigerators are increasingly collecting and storing our personal data to make our lives easier, to the point that we rely almost exclusively on them. And all of them are delivered through the cloud. So it becomes even more important to ensure that these technologies are kept secure.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is the nature of our business. Contributing to, working for, and being a part of an industry set on identifying some of the world\u2019s most pressing problems, is invigorating. We help enterprises understand that for all of their different application deployment models, they need different types of security for those deployments, and then we can showcase how those models are addressed across the spectrum. That\u2019s why it\u2019s so exciting to me to work for this company, where I am seeing firsthand how our platform is truly helping to secure the cloud and can be a part of making the difference.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Sky\u2019s the Limit<\/b><\/p>\n

Working here, we are at the epicenter of information technology. Our work affects how businesses operate \u2014 from small, locally owned stores to major banks, insurers, manufacturers, health care providers and even airlines \u2014 and, as a result, our own security as well.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This means we never stop innovating. Our work puts us at the cutting edge of technology, and the opportunity individuals have here to advance our skills, make important contributions to the technology, and constantly learn and grow is incomparable. On a daily basis, we are interacting with machine learning and artificial intelligence, containers, the serverless cloud, data science and security. I don\u2019t know of another company in this market where you can come in and work on all these advancing technologies at once, or make such a substantial impact on our digital way of life.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Not only that, but working here is the best of both worlds: You have the stability of a major corporation that still operates like a startup. The dynamism and ability to innovate here are tremendous, and we\u2019re encouraged to share our ideas and follow our intuition. I\u2019ve never experienced a company like this; it\u2019s the perfect combination of disruption and meaningful work. We\u2019re not in the business of small \u2014 we\u2019re in the business of protecting the world as we know it. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Working in cloud security at Palo Alto Networks is the best of both worlds: the stability of a major corporation that still operates like a startup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":105840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6719,6768],"tags":[5106],"coauthors":[6902],"class_list":["post-105838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-company-culture","category-secure-the-cloud","tag-culture-and-diversity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/VV-1-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105838"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113623,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105838\/revisions\/113623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105838"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=105838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}