11.9. Information Governance and Cloud Computing

IG is applicable to the use of cloud computing because we're basically defining the IT architecture as a set of services that are re-locatable between on-premises and cloud computing–based systems. The same principles, policies, and procedures that apply to these services are provided within the enterprise or on a cloud.

Your organization's policies in the context of cloud computing should be declarative electronic rules about what can be done with a service, to a service, and by whom. These include the following:

  • Who can access the service

  • Who can access the data in the service

  • What they can do to the service

  • What can they do with the data in the service

  • How changes to the service and data affect ...

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