Servers, servers, everywhere: How the hybrid cloud changes the game for security

While organizations struggle to adopt the latest technologies to power business success, servers remain the workhorse of the enterprise even with major shifts from physical, to virtual, to cloud.

Gartner explicitly points out that, "Servers often host the most critical data in the enterprise and have different functionality than client endpoints."

The challenge is that the architectural shifts have established server workloads in multiple locations and in different formats, which makes securing them more complex than ever before.

This paper examines the dynamics of the hybrid cloud and the challenges introduced at both the business and technical levels.