Lessons from a "graybeard" in assessing cloud risk

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Chris Steffen is vice president of research for information security at analyst firm Enterprise Management Associates. He previously held a variety of IT leadership roles at companies including Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and DXC Technology. He is a regular speaker at industry conferences, the host of the Cybersecurity Awesomeness podcast and a frequent guest on other IT security podcasts.

The day of the CrowdStrike outage, Steffen posted on LinkedIn, "Not trying to kick anyone while they are down, but those that equate resiliency with public cloud computing really need to re-evaluate those beliefs, especially for mission critical workloads. The outages being reported today were some of the exact same issues that we have seen before, but - as an industry - don't seem to learn from."

In this episode, Steffen discusses the lessons on data center resilience he says have been lost in the cloud era and why IT orgs must re-evaluate their cloud risk.