Top Benefits of Multi-Cloud Security in 2025

As more companies store their most important data in the cloud, the challenge of data privacy is becoming more pressing. This is especially the case with the rise of multi-cloud estates, where companies use multiple cloud computing service providers. While this allows companies greater flexibility, the multi-cloud system requires a more complex approach to data security.

What Is Multi-Cloud Security?

Multi-cloud security systems offer comprehensive protection of your data across multiple cloud services. A good system will extend that protection across both private and public clouds, whether you're working with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Azure, AWS, or other providers.

It's important to find a system that is as flexible as your cloud security needs are intricate, which could mean a purpose-built rather than a "one-size-fits-all" solution. There are four major benefits to such a purpose-built multi-cloud security system.

First, multi-cloud security tailored to your company's unique needs can offer executives secure and unified visibility of data across different cloud platforms. Second, this makes it possible to prioritize risks and remediation more effectively, because you can see your data across all major clouds.

Third, you can avoid vendor lock-in. An independent, custom-built solution can offer the flexibility you need.

Fourth, you want a service that will make data privacy compliance easy to manage in a complex regulatory environment. If some of your operations are in the European Union, for example, you need to make sure that across all of your cloud services, you are compliant with the more stringent standards of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). If you are operating in a highly regulated industry such as finance, healthcare, or government, you may have other exacting data privacy standards to adhere to, as well.

The "problem" of data privacy is unique to each business. That is why you are likely to need a tailored rather than off-the-shelf multi-cloud security service. You need more than a cloud-specific solution, and you also need more than a poorly integrated platform that connects multiple clouds but doesn't provide integrated interfaces and a seamless user experience.

The Multi-Cloud CNAPP Approach

More organizations are seeking a multi-cloud CNAPP, or Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform, which is designed not only to be multi-cloud but also to provide visibility and data protection over the entire lifecycle of cloud-native applications. A CNAPP brings everything under one platform and provides context-aware risk detection and real-time runtime protection. It streamlines risk prioritization and remediation, allowing executives to spot vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and compliance gaps early. CNAPPs are also quick to deploy and easy to scale.

According to Gartner, "By 2029, 60% of enterprises that do not deploy a unified CNAPP solution within their cloud architecture will lack extensive visibility into the cloud attack surface and consequently fail to achieve their desired zero-trust goals."

More CNAPPs are being developed for this hungry market—services like the Orca Cloud Security Platform, which offers AI-driven security coverage of all major clouds and integrations with more than fifty tech platforms. These include integrations with developer and DevOps tools. (You can find out more about Orca or request a demo here.)

Questions to Ask

As you consider a possible CNAPP for your organization, ask yourself a few critical questions.

• What level of risk to data security does your organization face, and what is your organization's appetite for risk?
• What is your cost sensitivity?
• How many integrations do you need across your cloud services?

As you find the specific answers to these questions, those answers can help you determine what type of multi-cloud security platform you need. Since multi-cloud security is shaping the future, it's important to move forward with clear priorities and well-informed decisions.