Securing applications in the public cloud

March 9, 2017 Off By David
Grazed from Computerworld.  Author: Oleg Dulin

I have written on the topic of cloud-induced transformation of IT in the past. Adapting IT audit and monitoring processes to cloud infrastructure is one of the challenges I come across when it comes to cloud rollouts.

In a 1990s-era data center, everything revolves around hardware and virtual machines. Big, monolithic applications are installed and run on servers. Servers themselves run in the private subnet (secure) or public (DMZ), and they have various security agent software installed to monitor and log everything that goes in and out of these machines. 

Public cloud is not a data center; it is a platform

It is easy to think of public cloud (such as AWS) as a managed hosting service or collocation. However, this is only a fraction of the services public clouds offer. Among services provided by large public cloud providers like AWS or Azure, there is storage, queuing, machine learning, container hosting, database engines and much more.


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