Cloud adoption continues to grow at a fast pace. According to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Infrastructure Tracker: Buyer and Cloud Deployment, spending on compute and storage infrastructure products for cloud infrastructure, including dedicated and shared environments, increased 12.5% year over year in the first quarter of 2021 (1Q21) to $15.1 billion.

As the cloud adoption continues to grow, the consumption of the services will also grow quickly, causing the inevitable growth in the volume of security alerts, notifications, and events. As of today, there is no common protocol among cloud service providers for handling security events. As a result, cloud customers are burdened with increased spending on tools, equipment and talent needed to maintain at least a minimum amount of security across their assets.

The Open Community Networking User Group (ONUG) Collaborative is developing a Cloud Security Notification Framework (CSNF), an open source standardized model for how cloud providers report security events, alerts and alarms so consumers can achieve greater visibility and governance among their assets. CSNF is an industry-changing initiative and is the start of multi-cloud security notification services. The goal is to automate cloud governance and policy.

Oracle, as one of the ONUG Collaborative member companies, is excited to join the steering committee and the Automated Cloud Governance (ACG) Working Group to develop the CNSF model. Oracle’s own Bala Chandran is on the steering committee will help set the direction of the working group(s) and populate them with members of their senior staff to work with peers.

At the October 20th Fall ONUG Conference, the ACG Working Group will be presenting the first ever multi-cloud demonstration of the CSNF “Decorator”, a tool that democratizes data by adding standard attributes to data that can be consumed by a wide range of machines. Additionally, Oracle’s Johnnie Konstantas and Karl Miller are presenting sessions on Cloud Security Notification Framework Decorator as a General Approach to AIOps, Observability & More and A New Model for Multi-Cloud Security Notification: The ONUG CSNF Decorator Demonstration.

The work on the decorator represents that work that Oracle has done with ONUG to date, and we look forward to sharing those findings at the ONUG industry-wide event. Please join us by registering with this complimentary pass to see more about the latest ONUG findings!