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6 KEY USE CASES
FOR SECURING YOUR
ORGANIZATION’S
CLOUD WORKLOADS
PRESENTED BY
THE CONTINUING RISE OF CLOUD ADOPTION
T
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.
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
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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 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. u
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