The consulting firm Gartner has recently released its classic study Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, a study that analyzes the different phases in which the technologies related to Digital Transformation are in.. On this occasion, it has also produced a small extra report that analyzes the technologies linked to the Cloud Computing security, The new technology, one of the fastest growing areas in recent years, is set to become the future of information storage and business services in the near future.
Over the last year we have experienced several episodes of massive cyber attacks that have put some of the main companies in the market in check. Banks, energy companies, communications companies... nor has there been an exact pattern in predicting ransomware attacks?, The company's products and services have been chaotic at many times during the year. For that reason, the opinion of such a specialized consulting firm as Gartner in reference to the technologies that are set to secure companies' clouds.
The near future of cybersecurity in the cloud
Before going into the technologies that will dominate the cloud security market in the coming years, it is necessary to distinguish between two phases that Gartner always includes in its reports:
- The peak phaseis the one in which a particular technology reaches its zenith, not its success.
- The disillusionment phaseThe first one is that in which the different technologies are not able to meet the expectations created and decline.
Having clarified these two concepts, which are widely used in the Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies report, we will analyze some of the most important technologies that are currently at different stages of development and acceptance.
On the one hand, we find all those solutions, technologies and products that have reached the top this very year 2017, such as, for example, the specialized systems to prevent the loss of confidential data on mobile devices, the gestimony of the different access keys to enterprise platforms or the management of the infrastructure security. All these technologies, many of them linked to the Cloud, have reached their most important phase throughout this year due to the security issues that many companies have experienced in 2017, as we mentioned above.
But what about the near future of these technologies?
According to Gartner, the IT disaster recovery services and the Private Cloud will be two solutions to be taken into account in the near future. In the next two years, these technologies will be massively implemented in most companies. The curious thing about these two technologies is that the Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies report classifies them in the «disappointment» phase, as they have failed to exceed expectations. Nevertheless, they will be two solutions to watch over the next few years.
Lastly, the report highlights those new technologies that are still on their way to the peak phase, such as the DLP (Data Loss Protection) solutions and the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Both will reach their highest degree of maturity, as well as their greatest scope and implementation in just 2 to 3 years.
Now we can only wait to see if these predictions of the famous technology consulting firm come true. What we can say with absolute certainty is that cloud security is and will continue to be one of the most important aspects to be addressed in the coming years within Cloud Computing.