“Many enterprises are reluctant to move to the cloud until they have a security posture better than in the data center, even with cloud benefits such as agility and cost reduction.” – Vishal Jain

Guest: Vishal Jain (LinkedIn)
Company: Valtix (Twitter)

While cloud technology has the potential to make businesses more agile, many companies are still grappling with making the transition across. Security remains a key concern for companies, particularly following the Log4Shell vulnerability with many now seeing the need to shift from posture to prevention.

In this episode of TFiR: Let’s Talk, Swapnil Bhartiya sits down with Vishal Jain, Co-founder and CEO of Valtix, to discuss the current challenges enterprises are facing with cloud technologies and security. He explains how Valtix is helping to solve these challenges and takes us through the key findings from their most recent survey.

Key highlights of this video interview are:

• Jain talks about the challenges faced by customers in securing cloud networks in the public cloud, which led him to co-found Valtix, a startup focusing on securing cloud workloads.
• Many enterprises are reluctant to move to the cloud until they have a security posture better than in the data center, even with cloud benefits such as agility and cost reduction. Jain discusses the challenge of achieving both agility and security in a cloud environment.
• Jain explains the changes in developers’ roles to include security and why it is crucial they have sufficient security tooling. He explains the importance of shifting left and why there needs to be a combination of building security inside applications and having security controls outside.
• Many companies are looking to cut costs by reducing employees, which can be particularly challenging for companies relying primarily on doing things manually. However, Jain feels that this is an opportunity for them to leverage the automation cloud environments can offer.
• Talent shortages for cloud technologies pose challenges for enterprises and Valtix is working to solve this problem by helping organizations with automation. Jain goes into depth about Valtix’s networking and security offerings and how they are helping organizations be agile and secure their workloads.
• Jain discusses the key findings from the latest survey, telling us that approximately 95% of companies are now multi-cloud and 86% are now employing in-house cloud security architects. He explains why there is an increased need for security outside their applications following Log4Shell.
• Jain feels that there is a shift of focus from posture to prevention with 94% of respondents saying that they believe that secure cloud networking is important to their overall strategy and why Valtix is unique in its cloud network security offering.

This summary was written by Emily Nicholls.