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SIX KEY USE CASES FOR SECURING YOUR
ORGANISATION’S CLOUD WORKLOADS
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The continuing rise of cloud adoption
Today, an increasing number of organisations 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.
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.
As cloud vendors including AWS, Azure and
Google make clear, security in the cloud is a
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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.
While the benefits of cloud computing are very real
for organisations, so too are the responsibilities
around ensuring the security of the organisation’s
cloud workloads.
The vulnerabilities within the organisation’s cloud
workloads are also very real as some unfortunate
organisations have found to their peril. The following
examples represent some of the common use cases
and approaches organisations should take to secure
their cloud workloads. n
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