World Cloud Security Day: are your beliefs about the cloud accurate?

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On World Cloud Security Day, April 3, the emphasis is on correcting assumptions.

Genetec, which provides enterprise physical security software, highlighted a disconnect between cloud adoption models in physical security, and the governance and operational demands of large enterprises.

The company explained that cloud models tend to promote adoption as a simple move to the cloud, but this message overlooks the operational realities of large enterprises. Most enterprise environments span hundreds of sites, face strict regulatory and cybersecurity requirements, and rely on infrastructure that must remain operational for years, Genetec said.  

“Enterprise physical security seldom operates within a single deployment model, and cloud strategies must reflect that reality,” said Francis Lachance, Senior Director, Product, Genetec. 

“Organisations run cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments in parallel, and their systems must work seamlessly across all of them. That is how enterprises maintain governance, visibility, and control over environments that are built to operate for years.” 

Rachel Ler, Area VP for Asia at Fastly said getting real proof on cloud security is important. "Too many organisations in Asia have built their cloud strategies around an assumption that has never been tested: that security is someone else's problem to a degree they have not actually verified," she shared.  

"Cloud adoption has moved fast across the region, yet governance has not kept pace. The result is accumulated risk sitting inside environments that have grown faster than the teams responsible for them."

"For World Cloud Security Day 2026, the conversation worth having is about architecture. Consolidating security where traffic flows means enforcing policy consistently and gaining visibility across the full attack surface, and that is a different exercise from simply spending more. For most organisations, that points to the edge, where real-time visibility and consistent global enforcement become possible," Ler added.

Email signature management solution provider Exclaimer said that World Cloud Security Day exposed an overlooked gap in cloud security: outbound communication.

“World Cloud Security Day is a reminder that most organisations have gotten very good at controlling who gets into their systems, but far fewer are controlling what comes out,” said Karl Bagci, Director of IT and Information Security at Exclaimer.  

“Email is still one of the most trusted and heavily used business channels, but it remains one of the least consistently governed at scale. What we’re seeing is a shift in risk from infrastructure to behaviour. Specifically, how people communicate, what they send, and whether those communications are controlled.” 

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), a not-for-profit organisation committed to awareness, practical implementation, and credentialing of forward-looking cybersecurity topics, named April 2 CSA Day and offered a 50% discount on all training and certificate programmes for 24 hours at https://e.cloudsecurityalliance.org/csa-day-2026

Cloud security provider HENNGE, on the other hand, picked World Cloud Security Day to launch new software. HENNGE Endpoint & Managed Security is designed to extend protection beyond identity and secure devices across modern cloud environments. 

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