Cloud Security: Who's Responsible?

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Igor Novikov | 04.08.2017
Cloud services are a reality today. Their popularity is growing, the number of offers and providers is growing. But many customers are still cautious about clouds, and their main concern is security.

For most, this has already become a truism: any cloud project should certainly begin not only with an examination of ways to implement its functional application part, but also with an assessment of everything related to security when transferring data and programs outside the internal corporate infrastructure. These issues are among the most important when implementing cloud projects.

What do customers want? They expect to receive the same level of control and security in the cloud that they are accustomed to when working with a “home” corporate infrastructure. This is how IT representatives reason.

Business leaders view cloud projects a mexico mobile database differently. For them, choosing a cloud is an opportunity to shift responsibility to the cloud service provider. If they are satisfied with its guarantees, then there are no problems.

The reality is somewhere in the middle. The responsibility for security is not lost, but shifted to the shoulders of cloud providers and, to some extent, remains with the customers themselves. It is a little more difficult than before, but not necessarily worse. New “rules of the game” are emerging, where all participants adopt a new approach.

Let's look at these issues in more detail, based on material by Sonja Gresser, client systems architect at IBM Security Software, which was recently published in the online publication IBM Security Intelligence.