ISO Compliance in the Cloud – why should you care?

July 18, 2016 Off By David
Object Storage

Grazed from CCI. Author: Editorial Staff.

Issues around mobility and multi-tenancy, identity and access management, data protection and incident response and assessment all need to be addressed. And with multiple modes – SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, public, private, hybrid – creating added complexity in how security and compliance is carried out and by whom, this can lead IT leaders to think twice about leveraging cloud…

Organisations already in the processes of implementing ISO 27001 to audit and report on the state of controls within their environment will know the immense amount of work required. However, while addressing compliance in the cloud is undoubtedly tough, it doesn’t have to be an obstacle…

What is ISO 27001 and why is it important?

ISO 27001 is a widely adopted global security standard and framework that sets out requirements and best practices for a comprehensive approach to managing company and customer information. Proving IT security practices is an important element of achieving ISO 27001. The business benefits of ISO 27001 certification are many…

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