Navigating Today’s Shared Security Responsibility Model in the Cloud

How do you protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of systems and data in your organization’s growing cloud environments? It starts by understanding your responsibility.

Addressing security in a public cloud environment is slightly different than in your on-premises data centers. When you move systems and data to the cloud, security responsibilities become shared between your organization and the cloud service provider. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) providers, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), are responsible for securing the underlying infrastructure that supports the cloud, and you are responsible for anything you put on the cloud or connect to the cloud.