Autonomous Security Operations in Multi-Cloud Environments using Generative AI and Zero-Trust Security
Abstract
The rapid adoption of multi-cloud computing has transformed the way organizations deploy, manage, and secure digital assets. While multi-cloud environments provide flexibility, scalability, resilience, and cost optimization, they also introduce significant security challenges due to fragmented visibility, heterogeneous security controls, dynamic workloads, and increasing cyber threats. Traditional security operations centers (SOCs) often struggle to manage the complexity and speed required to detect and respond to threats across multiple cloud platforms. In this context, Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) and Zero-Trust Security (ZTS) have emerged as promising technologies for enabling autonomous security operations. Generative AI enhances security by automating threat detection, incident analysis, alert prioritization, vulnerability assessment, and response orchestration through intelligent data processing and contextual reasoning. Simultaneously, Zero-Trust Security adopts the principle of "never trust, always verify," ensuring continuous authentication, authorization, and monitoring of users, devices, applications, and workloads. The integration of Generative AI with Zero-Trust frameworks creates an adaptive and proactive security architecture capable of reducing human intervention while improving operational efficiency and threat resilience. This essay examines the role of autonomous security operations in multi-cloud environments, explores the synergy between Generative AI and Zero-Trust Security, reviews existing literature, and proposes a comprehensive research methodology for evaluating the effectiveness, challenges, and future potential of AI-driven autonomous cybersecurity systems in modern cloud infrastructures
Article Information
Journal |
International Journal of Science, Research and Technology |
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Volume (Issue) |
Vol. 9 No. 1 (2026): International Journal of Science, Research and Technology (IJSRAT) |
DOI |
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Pages |
85-94 |
Published |
February 10, 2025 |
| Copyright |
All rights reserved |
Open Access |
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. |
How to Cite |
Cynthiya Mohan (%2025). Autonomous Security Operations in Multi-Cloud Environments using Generative AI and Zero-Trust Security. International Journal of Science, Research and Technology , Vol. 9 No. 1 (2026): International Journal of Science, Research and Technology (IJSRAT) , pp. 85-94. https://doi.org/10.15662/IJSRAT.2026.0901010 |
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