Many organizations have such a positive first experience with cloud computing that they quickly want to move to a hybrid cloud environment with data and workloads shared between private and public clouds. The flexibility and control that a hybrid cloud provides is why it is expected to be the dominant cloud computing model for the foreseeable future.
However, companies often don’t think about security issues until after they are well along in the process of building a hybrid cloud. This can lead to nasty surprises when they realize this environment introduces some unique security considerations that don’t exist in traditional infrastructure. That’s why a hybrid cloud needs to be secure by design.
