With the right controls in place, the cloud doesn't have to be a scary place. These guidelines can help your company stay safe.
There are so many different kinds of clouds - public, private, hybrid, internal - that many businesses and customers have difficulty deciding which is the right one for them. Furthermore, many businesses may use a few different variations of cloud environments - a private cloud for their own intranet, a hybrid cloud to keep some data on premises and some off premises to meet compliance regulations, and a public cloud for low-risk data.
These different types of environments make it difficult for IT and security teams to monitor every cloud on every device, or to monitor access requests for each different type of cloud environment. If you don’t control the cloud or where your data and apps reside, don’t manage them, or don’t know what you have in the cloud, your risk starts to sprawl and you don’t even know what’s happened when there’s a breach - or where to start to remediate. Follow these guidelines to make sure you avoid the cloud’s possible pitfalls.
