New capabilities fortify defenses across Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and the Oracle applications stack to help customers protect their applications and data
SINGAPORE—25 May, 2022Oracle is expanding the built-in security services and capabilities of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to help customers in Singapore protect their cloud applications and data against emerging threats. Five new capabilities round out OCI’s already comprehensive security offering, including a new built-in and cloud-native firewall service and enhancements to Oracle Cloud Guard and Oracle Security Zones. These innovations will further help ensure that organizations in Singapore can easily secure their cloud deployments and applications with simple, prescriptive, and integrated services that in most cases, do not require additional investment.
As organizations across industries, from financial services to retail, move mission-critical workloads to the cloud, they must defend against security vulnerabilities from inside and outside the firewall that are resulting in more breaches and exposed data. For example, highlighting threats that originate from inside a company, Gartner® estimates that “through 2023, at least 99 percent of cloud security failures will be the customer’s fault.”[1] To overcome this challenge, cloud users and administrators are now expected to know how cloud security services work, configure them correctly, and maintain their cloud deployments.
“Organizations are just as confident critical applications and data can be safely hosted in a cloud environment as they are on-premises. So, the question becomes one of best fit; OCI’s cloud infrastructure design and new security services are very purposeful and prescriptive based on the hindsight of other cloud options in the market and complexities and lack of automation other providers’ customers encounter. Oracle has now made cloud security easy to consume and affordable for its customers,” said Jay Bretzmann, Security Program director, IDC.
Oracle has made security foundational and built-in for OCI customers to help them address regulatory compliance requirements, stay on top of security threats and concerns, and prevent security-related outages. Oracle is expanding its cloud security capabilities to provide multiple layers of defense to help identify and defeat emerging threats and security violations quickly. New capabilities include:
“Oracle continues to pave the way in building cloud services that have natively integrated and feature rich security capabilities. By choosing to integrate the industry-leading technology in Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Next Generation Firewall, Oracle is giving its customers incredible security as a native service,” said Anand Oswal, senior vice president, Network Security, Palo Alto Networks. “Oracle customers can have the peace of mind that they have access to many of Palo Alto Networks network security tools.”
Christopher G. Chelliah, Senior Vice President, Technology & Customer Strategy, Japan & Asia Pacific at Oracle Corporation, said, “We fundamentally believe that security should be foundational and built-in. Customers should not be forced to make a trade-off between security and cost, especially in the cloud environment. Security in the cloud is always a joint responsibility between the provider and the customer and we urge customers to challenge their vendors about what they are doing to ensure they are constantly protected. Our aim is to take on more of that responsibility, whether through these new innovations, our ground up zero trust model, clear separation and isolation of tenancies, always on encryption, or solutions like cloud guard, where we have ML and AI looking at attacks and putting a shield up against them.
[1] Gartner, Hype Cycle™ for Cloud Security, 2021, Tom Croll, Jay Heiser, Published 27 July 2021.
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