Multi-cloud environments have increasingly become the standard IT architecture for forward-looking organizations trying to leverage the most effective solutions to today’s development challenges. In 2022, 89% of polled organizations reported having multi-cloud strategies in place, with 80% of those adopting a hybrid approach of both public and private clouds.
- Choose optimal cloud service providers by use-case
- Avoid vendor lock-in
- Pay only for the services and resources they need
- Maintain flexible scalability
Security Challenges of Multi-Cloud Architectures
While the shared responsibility model of multi-cloud environments helps organizations amplify their capabilities through access to highly specialized services and hardware, it comes with an increased reliance on vendor-controlled infrastructures that limit runtime visibility. Among IT decision-makers who manage multi-cloud environments, 46% cite lack of visibility and loss of control as their primary security challenges. Additionally, cloud architects struggle to integrate the disparate security solutions offered by vendors, highlighting a glaring absence of holistic environment monitoring capabilities.
Because multi-cloud environments are headless systems of systems, their administrators can only create top-down visibility indirectly through processes that approximate what system-wide visibility would look like if it were attainable. One approach is to sum monitoring data for each cloud individually under the assumption that if all parts are working, the whole must be as well. Another is to assess cloud applications one by one, comparing the state of resources to the deployment rules of the hosting vendor.
Neither approach reliably guarantees real-time visibility into activities across multiple clouds, especially in environments where applications are scaled or redeployed over cloud host boundaries. However, indirect approximation combined with auditing separate system logs – any one of which can be over-or under-configured – presently constitutes the practice of multi-cloud security in most organizations. With multi-cloud data breaches and audit failures already up 29% over 2021, it’s clear that current practices have become wholly outmatched – even when thoroughly applied – by complex, expanding attack surfaces.
Universal Tracing: Creating Clarity with Context
Spyderbat offers a more effective approach to address the visibility and monitoring challenges of multi-cloud environments. Converse to logs and Linux tools like AuditD that record only what they’re configured to capture in userspace, Spyderbat taps into kernel space to capture inter and intra system activity.
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