Hybrid cloud security requires visibility across workloads that were never designed to speak to each other. Start by establishing an authoritative asset inventory using automation that ingests from cloud providers, identity platforms, and configuration management databases.
Once visibility is in place, layer on policy-as-code that expresses your security controls in a reusable format. Infrastructure teams can consume the same policies inside deployment pipelines, while security operations can monitor enforcement in real time.
Finally, invest in a joint response playbook. When incidents occur, developers, infrastructure engineers, and security analysts should be operating from a single set of annotated runbooks. This keeps response times low without sacrificing control.