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66 Data Center & Hybrid Cloud Security For Dummies, Palo Alto Networks Special Edition These materials are © 2020 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Any dissemination, distribution, or unauthorized use is strictly prohibited. To secure multi-cloud deployments, it must support a variety of cloud and virtualization environments, including all major public cloud providers and virtualized private clouds. The network secu- rity platform must integrate with native cloud services — such as Amazon Lambda and Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Functions, and Azure App Service — as well as automation tools, such as Ansible and Terraform, to integrate security into your cloud-first development projects. Data center tasks and processes that help IT teams execute change with greater speed, quality, and consistency are typically automated using workflows. However, deployment of security capabilities typically lags orchestration software provisioning in virtual and cloud environments, leading to security risks and considerable integration challenges. Automated provisioning of network security capabilities, in line with other orchestration ele- ments of the hybrid data center environment, is essential. Automate Routine Tasks and Focus on the Threats That Matter A recent survey from the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) found 51 percent of cybersecurity professionals feel their organiza- tion has a problematic shortage of cybersecurity skills. This is compounded by a dependency on too many manual processes for day-to-day security operations, such as chasing down data, investigating false positive alerts, and managing remediation. Manually analyzing and correlating the vast number of security events slows mitigation, increases the chance for error, and is difficult to scale. Security teams can easily drown in the volume of alerts and miss the critical, actionable ones. This is exacerbated by a looming shortage of skilled cybersecurity professionals. Although big data analytics uncovers hidden patterns, correla- tions, and other insights to provide security teams with action- able intelligence, you still need the right data. That data must be sourced from everywhere — networks, endpoints, SaaS applica- tions, public clouds, private clouds, data centers, and so on — and be ready for analytics. By using precise analytics to drive automation, you can easily operate security best practices like Zero Trust; streamline rou- tine tasks; and focus on business priorities, such as speeding