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oday, an increasing number of organizations
are taking advantage of the benefits of cloud-
based infrastructure by making the journey to
public, private and hybrid cloud environments.
Some that are further along in their cloud journeys
leverage DevOps pipelines to increase their business
agility, while others focus on cost savings and access
to on-demand compute. As cloud vendors including AWS, Azure and Google
make clear, security in the cloud is a shared
responsibility. Though the public cloud vendors
take great efforts to secure the cloud infrastructure
– compute, storage, etc – their customers are fully
responsible for protecting basically everything above
the hypervisor, including the operating system,
applications, data, access to external resources and
other assets and infrastructure.
The business benefits are very real, but as more
business-critical applications and services migrate
to the cloud, ensuring the security of these cloud
workloads becomes essential – as does the need to
maintain and enforce enterprise-wide security policies
in a consistent way. While the benefits of cloud computing are very real for
organizations, so too are the responsibilities around
ensuring the security of the organization’s cloud
workloads. The vulnerabilities within the organization’s
cloud workloads are also very real, as some unfortunate
organizations have found to their peril. n
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