Navigating Today’s Shared Security Responsibility Model in the Cloud
How do you protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of systems and data in your organization’s growing cloud environments? It starts by understanding your responsibility.
Addressing security in a public cloud environment is slightly different than in your on-premises data centers. When you move systems and data to the cloud, security responsibilities become shared between your organization and the cloud service provider. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) providers, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), are responsible for securing the underlying infrastructure that supports the cloud, and you are responsible for anything you put on the cloud or connect to the cloud.
Cloud Security Best Practices for Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Over the last 18-months we have seen more and more of our clients turn to IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service) providers to support their enterprise infrastructure needs. While there are obvious benefits to utilizing these types of services, such as reducing the complexity associated with managing an enterprise infrastructure, moving to the cloud can also introduce new security concerns. Most often these concerns arise as a result of misconfigured cloud instances.