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Five essential strategies for securing multi-cloud environments

By Jess Ng, Country Head (Singapore and Brunei), Fortinet | Friday, June 27, 2025, 5:23 PM Asia/Singapore

Five essential strategies for securing multi-cloud environments

Organizations adopting multi-cloud need to address new cybersecurity challenges with integrated tools, skilled teams, and proactive strategies to ensure operational resilience.

As Cloud technology evolves, one thing has become increasingly clear: how an organization chooses to adopt and manage this part of infrastructure will directly shape its security posture, infrastructure priorities, and long-term resilience.

Across the Asia Pacific region (APAC), the shift toward multi-cloud environments is gaining undeniable momentum. It is a logical evolution: by distributing workloads across two or more cloud providers, organizations can tap into specialized services and enhance operational resilience.

However, as with any transformation, this approach carries along with it a concomitant set of complexities, especially around cybersecurity.

Evolving threats and growing complexity
Despite the maturity of public cloud solutions, security concerns remain persistent and pressing. Many organizations continue to express concern over public cloud security. The reasons are familiar:

  • data leakage
  • lack of clarity around shared responsibility
  • insufficient visibility
  • risks of non-compliance

In a multi-cloud environment these risks only multiply, where integration challenges and operational complexity can widen the attack surface.

Cloud security today is as much about managing complexity as it is about addressing threats. Among the biggest challenges reported by cybersecurity professionals in the region are:

  • ensuring data privacy across environments
  • maintaining visibility and control
  • managing skill shortages
  • keeping pace with the accelerating rate of cloud innovation.

While the right tools can help, security is no longer a technology problem alone: it is an organizational imperative. The ability to detect and respond to threats in real-time has become non-negotiable, yet many professionals admit to having limited confidence in this key task.

Many enterprises have turned to a growing mix of tools to plug gaps. However, simply adding more tools into the mix can backfire if they are not integrated effectively. In fact, the real question is not how many tools an organization has, but whether those tools are working in concert to deliver visibility, consistency, and speed.

At the same time, we cannot ignore the human factor. Shortages of skilled cybersecurity talent pools around the world are estimated at several million people. Technology, no matter how advanced, is only as effective as the people who manage and operate it. That is why building cyber resilience requires a holistic approach: one that combines investment in technology with continuous training, strong cyber hygiene practices, and a culture that embeds security into every layer of the organization.

A unified approach to cloud security
As multi-cloud adoption becomes the norm, the ability to unify cloud security operations will define the next era of cybersecurity maturity.

A centralized approach helps streamline policy enforcement, clarify visibility across platforms, and reduce the chance of misconfigurations — the root cause of many cloud breaches.

Organizations that can integrate risk detection and threat response across clouds, while ensuring strong access control and identity management, will be better equipped to scale securely and maintain compliance.

To build a truly resilient multi-cloud environment, organizations need to go beyond reactive fixes and adopt proactive strategies:

  1. Automating the detection and remediation of misconfigurations and permissions issues is essential to prevent security gaps before they are exploited
  2. Real-time visibility into data flows helps ensure data remains protected during transit
  3. Unified threat detection systems improve incident response by correlating activity across environments
  4. Standardizing access controls and centralizing identity management are equally critical measures in reducing the risk of unauthorized access
  5. Aligning cloud security investments with workload-specific needs is key. Whether running containerized applications or managing hybrid cloud deployments, scalable, cloud-native security tools should provide consistent protection without adding unnecessary complexity

There is no one-size-fits-all playbook for securing a multi-cloud environment. Each organization must tailor its strategy to its own unique workload requirements, risk appetite, and operational goals.

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