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You should regularly assess the security posture of your infrastructure and application environment through a six‐step, best practices‐based process( shown in Figure 3‐4):
✓ Assess: Gather the current baseline security posture of the environment.
✓ Measure: Determine where you are falling short.
✓ Report: Notify the appropriate people about the issues and ask them to fix the problems.
✓ Test: Check the outcome of the remediation efforts.
✓ Update: Update your baseline documentation with the new security posture.
✓ Repeat: Perform these steps as often as necessary, based on your organization’ s security policies.
Figure 3-4: Linear scale‐out infrastructure supports the needs of the enterprise cloud.
Application mobility
Perhaps one of the most important aspects of the enterprise cloud is application mobility. When applications are not bound by the constraints imposed by the infrastructure platform, enterprise IT can pick the best physical and virtual infrastructure platforms for its applications based on its needs today.
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