Cloud Security Fundamentals

I’m always happy to pass on great info...and this is great info! I’ve included a few snippets below lifted from the full article.

There are a lot of security myths about cloud security needed to be clarified. One is that a lot of people think that as soon as they give something to the cloud, they do not have to worry about compliance with security. That is absolutely not correct. If you are a business, your clients are looking at you for security. Whether you go to the cloud or you do it internally using your private infrastructure, that doesn’t change your responsibility in terms of who owns compliance to security. There needs to be a very clear demarcation line.

Cloud security considerations, whether it is compliance, identity and access management, service integrity, endpoint integrity, information protection, IP specific protection, all needs to be taken into consideration no matter how you are using cloud and for what reasons.

There are various use cases for the cloud: website hosting, disaster recovery, test and development, seasonal capacity, eCommerce, etc. So again at the end of the day, you need to do a proper assessment, whether it’s a vendor assessment, what model to select, how vendors deploy various architecture, what are the security ramifications of going to the cloud and last but not least, the financial analysis.

One needs to go through the full cycle. And do not follow blindly, if your competitor has gone to the cloud, should I go to cloud. Maybe, maybe not, your and your competitors may differ. Cloud is just an enabler. It really depends on what are you trying to provide to your clients, to your organizations. Are you using the cloud for apps, for transportation, for advertising? All these various scenarios depend on whether you are doing a cloud or not.

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Thanks,

Matthew