As criminals find new and more advanced ways to infiltrate your infrastructure and cause damage, perpetrate theft, or both, organizations like yours must do what it takes to maintain the security of your people and assets from end to end. This is true for your organization’s physical spaces, digital spaces, and, as enabled by technological advancements, the increasing nexus between the two.
For example, in its 2025 Homeland Threat Assessment, the Office of Intelligence and Analysis of the US Department of Homeland Security shared a similar sentiment: “As AI enables an increase in the scope of an already rising volume of cyber attacks [sic], further automation of organizational cybersecurity efforts may help to more effectively counter persistent attacks and reduce the strain on human network defenders.”
In other words, the more that organizations shift their cybersecurity protocols and practices to increasingly digitized solutions that can more effectively mount a defense against a rising number of increasingly sophisticated attacks, the more successfully those organizations can defend their assets against cybercriminals and malicious actors who seek to do them harm.
One way to protect your organization’s points of entry, both in your digital and physical infrastructure, is with an integrated resilience solution that leverages the combined advantages of both on-premises and cloud-based security solutions into a unified hybrid cloud security solution. This is an especially viable option for organizations who have yet to move any of their security apparatus into the cloud, but wish to do so in a measured, deliberate fashion.
To more fully explore what a hybrid cloud security solution can offer, we’ll look at some of the reasons why your organization may still be operating with an on-premises security solution, the top benefits of hybrid cloud security solutions, and which capabilities to consider when seeking to defend your organization with a hybrid cloud security solution.
Why your organization doesn’t already use a hybrid cloud security system
Organizations have an infinite number of differentiating attributes, reaching across both the public and private sectors, and sizes that range from independent operators to tens of thousands of employees working simultaneously across a host of locations around the world. As such, each organization’s security demands are specific to how they operate. No security solution is a true one-size-fits-all that can meet every single organization at the level of their needs.
Many organizations view the opportunity to make fundamental changes to their security solutions as a chance to accommodate their growing or changing needs, improve the efficacy of their security protocol, or integrate innovative technologies that can keep up with the pace of threats in a dynamic space. But this doesn’t change the fact that a shift of this magnitude — especially one that stands to affect operations across your entire infrastructure — can be an inconvenience that interrupts or adds drag to your ability to perform your core processes, however temporary the disturbance may be.
Additionally, for many organizations — particularly small- and medium-sized businesses — the initial cost of upgrades, even for something as vitally important as a security solution, may feel like a roadblock that’s impossible to overcome. As a result, some organizations go for years at a time without implementing critical improvements to their security program or even assessing their security needs at a systemic level.
So, it's understandable why a number of organizations may rely on the same security solution or set of security protocols for a long while. Unfortunately, the methods that cybercriminals and malicious actors use to gain unauthorized access to your infrastructure are constantly changing and evolving. And therefore, the longer your organization goes without security upgrades, the easier it will be for someone to find and breach a vulnerability in your defenses.
In short, upgrading your security solution to a more advanced cloud security solution may appear to be an inconvenience, but it’s nowhere as costly or inconvenient as the fallout of a security breach that could have otherwise been avoided.
Top benefits of hybrid cloud security solutions
There’s a number of reasons your organization may look toward a hybrid cloud security solution as your security incident management software of choice:
Lower upfront costs
Unlike a purely on-premises security solution, your organization doesn’t have to finance as much of a capital investment in physical ICT resources or the ongoing expenses of a secure physical space or full-time IT personnel. Shifting from an on-premises security solution to a hybrid cloud solution will carry an upfront cost, but over time, the savings in ongoing expenses more than justify the cost of procurement.
Equal access for all
Because the financial barrier to entry for hybrid security solutions is far lower, smaller and mid-size organizations can have equal access to comparable security resources as larger ones. This levels the playing field, eliminating a competitive advantage for enterprise-level organizations, thus helping smaller organizations to remain competitive.
Easy to launch
Once your cloud-based security management software provider leads your IT team through intersystem connectivity and setup for the cloud-based elements of your hybrid security solution, that portion of your solution is instantly operational.
Flexibility and scalability
Hybrid cloud software is accessible from anywhere in the world, and its functionality is easy to ramp up or adjust as the needs of your organization demand. This includes accounting for new risks and dependencies, adding new locations or users, and defining multiple series of permission parameters.
Stronger resilience
With a physical ICT resource system built across an interconnected series of data centers in diverse locations around the world, a cloud-based security solution can maintain consistent uptimes near 100%. Also, built-in fail-safes prevent the system from going offline due to localized incidents like natural disasters.
Fast data recovery
For incidents where data recovery is a factor, a hybrid cloud security system comprises a series of secure content delivery networks (CDNs) that back one another up, enabling them to work in tandem to restore data before crossing your organization’s intended recovery time objective (RTO).
Optimizes IT resources
With fewer physical ICT resources to maintain, your organization won’t need to source as many specially trained IT personnel for your system. Additionally, more of your existing in-house IT teams are free for reallocation, such as supporting other areas of your ICT infrastructure or improving other efficiencies.
Move to the cloud at your own pace
Your organization has full control to choose which elements of your security solution to shift to cloud-based ICT resources.
Capabilities to consider when adopting a hybrid cloud security solution
For organizations like yours who are just beginning to shift portions of their security solution away from on-premises ICT resources and into the cloud, a hybrid cloud security solution offers the best of both worlds. You’ll gain instant access to new or upgraded services within the cloud-based elements of your solution as they become available without relinquishing the higher level of security and control that accompanies its on-premises elements.
When looking for hybrid cloud security incident management software, the best solutions out there should let your team:
- Keep each other informed with effortless report creation and sharing throughout or across teams via QR codes, SMS, or a secure mobile application
- Optimize situational awareness with customizable dashboards that integrate real-time news, weather, geographic, and meteorological data from credible sources and feeds
- Stay on top of potential threats to people, assets, and reputation with AI-driven threat intelligence that streamlines escalation and support effective incident response
- Manage persons, organizations, and assets of interest and send notices to teams as needed with up-to-date intelligence that supports better decision-making
- Prevent incident recurrence and improve response with more thorough post-event learnings from incident investigations, including easy-to-record case notes
- Respond to incidents more efficiently and expedite recovery through customizable workflows with automated notifications and detailed response action assignments
- Gain valuable, actionable insights from post-event data with interactive dashboards, charts, maps, and shareable custom reports for stakeholders or key decision-makers
No matter the industry or sector in which your organization operates, criminals and malicious actors are constantly testing, changing, and evolving their approaches to breaking down your defenses and running roughshod over your security apparatus. So, the best way — and often, the only way — to stay protected and maintain the strongest resilience posture possible is to upgrade your security solution, even incrementally, as a hybrid cloud security solution allows.
Don’t wait for your next big security incident — request a demo of Noggin today and stay as prepared as possible.
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