Over the last few years, cloud security has moved from an infrastructure concern to a board-level topic. This post summarises the patterns I’ve seen and the questions teams are now being asked.
What changed
- More critical workloads in the cloud. ERP, finance and HR systems are no longer “on-prem only”.
- Regulation caught up. Data-protection rules now expect evidence of controls, not just intentions.
- Incidents became visible. A misconfiguration is now a headline, not an internal ticket.
What it means for roadmaps
Security work that used to be scheduled “after go-live” is now part of the definition of done:
- Access reviews happen before a system goes live, not after an audit finding.
- Monitoring and alerting are delivered with the first environment, not the last.
- Runbooks are written alongside the architecture, so on-call engineers aren’t guessing.
A note on this post
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