Multi-Cloud Blind Spots Are Leaving Security Teams Exposed
Most enterprises didn’t choose multi-cloud as a deliberate strategy. They ended up there: an acquisition brought in a company already running on a different provider, one team picked Amazon Web Services (AWS) because that’s what they knew, another spun up projects in Microsoft Azure because it bundled with existing licensing, and a third quietly built things in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) because a developer liked the tooling.
Nobody sat down and designed this. And nobody ended up owning the gaps between the pieces. That’s the actual risk. Not any single cloud provider, but the seams where they meet.
Why the seams are the problem
Each cloud provider has its own identity and access management (IAM) model, its own default settings, its own way of structuring permissions and resources. A security policy that’s airtight in AWS doesn’t automatically carry the same meaning in Azure, even when...
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