Cloud data security: Share the responsibility, minimize the risks

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Crystal Bedell.

Running enterprise applications in a public cloud offers plenty of benefits. Chief among them: Renting infrastructure from an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provider reduces capital expenditures and enables agility.

However, those benefits typically add a layer of complexity to application security. When running an application in-house, IT teams understand whether and how the infrastructure is secured. But the same can’t always be said of IaaS environments…

"It’s not a situation where you’re absolved of the responsibility," said Jim Reavis, executive director of the Cloud Security Alliance, an organization that promotes best practices and training to improve cloud data security. "There’s a fair amount of work needed to understand business requirements and technology requirements and to take architecture and risk management and good application development principles to uncover what you need to do to build this in the proper way."…

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