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The Secure Cloud: Best Practices for Cloud Adoption
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This paper outlines three best practices that you can follow today.
First, conduct a full risk assessment before you contract with any cloud provider.
Look not just at the provider’s security and compliance activities, but how
stringently they apply their policies to their subcontractors, how easily you can
migrate your data to another platform at the end of a contract, and how likely the
provider is to drop offline or go bankrupt. Cloud standards bodies have already
published frameworks and benchmarks you can use to conduct your assessment.
Second, look at how your own security works in a cloud environment. How
comprehensive is your existing security capability? And can you adequately
protect your data and your user identities beyond the perimeter? Techniques
like authentication and encryption are vital.
Third, implement a strong ongoing governance framework. Gather information
from providers and from your own systems, and monitor for security events and
compliance with accepted best-practice and specific regulation/standards where
appropriate. Check that your providers are fulfilling their SLAs and contracted
obligations. And plan for how you’ll respond to and remediate problems
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The Secure Cloud: Best Practices for Cloud Adoption
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2011
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