Ensure Cloud Security in IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS Environments
Keep your information security risks manageable when leveraging the benefits of cloud computing.
- Security remains a large impediment to realizing cloud benefits. Numerous concerns still exist around the ability for data privacy, confidentiality, and integrity to be maintained in a cloud environment.
- Even if adoption is agreed upon, it becomes hard to evaluate vendors that have strong security offerings and even harder to utilize security controls that are internally deployed in the cloud environment.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
- The cloud can be secure despite unique security threats.
- Securing a cloud environment is a balancing act of who is responsible for meeting specific security requirements.
- Most security challenges and concerns can be minimized through our structured process (CAGI) of selecting a trusted cloud security provider (CSP) partner.
Impact and Result
- The business is adopting a cloud environment and it must be secured, which includes:
- Ensuring business data cannot be leaked or stolen.
- Maintaining privacy of data and other information.
- Securing the network connection points.
- Determine your balancing act between yourself and your CSP; through contractual and configuration requirements, determine what security requirements your CSP can meet and cover the rest through internal deployment.
- This blueprint and associated tools are scalable for all types of organizations within various industry sectors.
Member Testimonials
After each Info-Tech experience, we ask our members to quantify the real-time savings, monetary impact, and project improvements our research helped them achieve. See our top member experiences for this blueprint and what our clients have to say.
10.0/10
Overall Impact
$2,740
Average $ Saved
10
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Experience
Impact
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Experience Grand Rapids
Guided Implementation
10/10
$2,740
10
Agriculture Financial Services Corporation
Guided Implementation
9/10
N/A
5
It was a great experience with Ian Mulholland as he did pay attention and provided valuable feedback to the cloud security standard draft. First ... Read More
Investors Bank
Guided Implementation
10/10
N/A
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Advisors Excel, LLC
Guided Implementation
10/10
N/A
10
Thompson Rivers University
Guided Implementation
7/10
$10,000
5
This was a first meeting and I cannot estimate savings yet. Let me do this again in a couple of months. Best Part: First look at tools Worst P... Read More
OCLC
Guided Implementation
10/10
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I was exploring some novel ways to apply this research. Ian was helpful to that end.
Regional Sanitation & Sacramento Area Sewer District
Guided Implementation
8/10
$5,093
10
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What Is a Blueprint?
A blueprint is designed to be a roadmap, containing a methodology and the tools and templates you need to solve your IT problems.
Each blueprint can be accompanied by a Guided Implementation that provides you access to our world-class analysts to help you get through the project.
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Get the help you need in this 5-phase advisory process. You'll receive 5 touchpoints with our researchers, all included in your membership.
Guided Implementation 1: Determine your cloud risk profile
- Call 1: Discuss risk profile of organization.
Guided Implementation 2: Identify your cloud security requirements
- Call 1: Walk through completion of assessments.
Guided Implementation 3: Evaluate vendors from a security perspective
- Call 1: Get ready to approach the right vendors the right way.
Guided Implementation 4: Implement your secure cloud program
- Call 1: Build an implementation roadmap and communication lines.
Guided Implementation 5: Build a cloud security governance program
- Call 1: Plan out and create a governance program.
Contributors
- Paul Stillwell, Independent Security Consultant
- Steven Woodward, CEO and Founder, Cloud Perspectives
- Michel Fosse, Senior Consultant and Consulting Services Manager, LGS (an IBM Company)
- John Lamboy, CIO/CISO, eKohs and EPSG
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