Choose a cloud governance flavor for your IT taste buds

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: David Linthicum.

Cloud governance and security typically work together, so you can’t select the right security approaches and technology without first understanding your governance strategy. What’s more, cloud governance comes in many flavors, including service level, data level and platform level. It’s important to understand each type of governance before choosing the best option for your organization.

Service-level or API governance installs policies around access to services exposed by public or private clouds. Users who request access to cloud services have to go through a centralized mechanism that checks the requester’s authorization. This mechanism also forces compliance with predefined policies that dictate when and how to access the cloud services…

Companies that provide API/service management and governance products include Mashery and Apigee…

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