Hybrid Cloud Security: A Multi-Layered Approach for Securing Cloud-Native Applications
Keywords:
Hybrid Cloud Security, Cloud-Native Applications, Identity and Access Management (IAM), Container Security, DevSecOps, Incident ResponseAbstract
While organizations advance in using cloud-native solutions, ensuring security in applications running on hybrid clouds has become very important. Hybrid clouds let organizations manage systems themselves and also access functions from the public cloud to benefit from high flexibility, scalability and lower spending. At the same time, cloud computing adds many new security issues due to its distributed design, mix of equipment and fast-changing threats. We offer in this paper a multi-tier defense system designed for hybrid cloud applications that focuses primarily on protecting cloud-native applications. This framework covers security for five important layers. Efforts include infrastructure protection, managing user access, application-level security, data security and privacy and remaining on watch and handling incidents instantly. Customers have the assurance that their applications are safe, thanks to network separation, secured containers, micro services-based authenticity, encryption methods and automated observations of threats. The framework also supports the use of DevSecOps and monitoring compliance at all times. By comparing several cases and analyzing them together, the paper shows how this strategy ensures that hybrid cloud systems are secure and still flexible and perform well. We have seen strong improvements in how fast threats are detected, how compliance is automated and how risks are managed. The research concludes that layered, adaptive security architecture is essential for protecting cloud-native workloads and ensuring secure digital transformation in hybrid environments
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