Chapter 15

Promoting Cloud Security and Governance

In This Chapter

arrow How using a cloud provider impacts security risks

arrow How internal users impact security risks

arrow Sharing the responsibility for cloud security with your cloud provider

arrow Exploring risks of running in the cloud

arrow Developing a secure hybrid environment

arrow Discovering risk and maintaining your cloud security strategy

Security is first, second, and third on the list of any IT manager who’s thinking about the cloud. Whether you’re looking at creating a private cloud, leveraging a public cloud, or implementing a hybrid environment, you must have a security strategy. Security is something you can never really relax about since the state of the art is constantly evolving. Hand-in-hand with this security strategy needs to be a governance strategy — a way to ensure accountability by all parties involved in your hybrid cloud deployment.

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