Ensure Cloud Security in IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS Environments


Manage cyber & information security risks when leveraging the benefits of cloud computing.

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Major Business Pain Points

  • 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.
Ensure Cloud Security in IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS Environments-Pain Points

Recommendations

Key Points

  • 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 the structured process (CAGI) of selecting a trusted cloud security provider (CSP) partner.

Approach

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  • 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.

Methodology and Tools

Executive Brief

Read the concise Executive Brief to find out why you should prioritize security in the cloud and review the methodology.

  • Ensure Cloud Security in IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS Environments – Executive Brief
  • Ensure Cloud Security in IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS Environments – Phases 1-5

1. Determine your cloud risk profile

Determine your organization’s rationale for cloud adoption and what that means for your security obligations.

  • Ensure Cloud Security in IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS Environments – Phase 1: Determine Your Cloud Risk Profile
  • Secure Cloud Usage Policy

2. Identify your cloud security requirements

Use the Cloud Security CAGI Tool to perform four unique assessments that will be used to identify secure cloud vendors.

  • Ensure Cloud Security in IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS Environments – Phase 2: Identify Your Cloud Security Requirements
  • Cloud Security CAGI Tool

3. Evaluate vendors from a security perspective

Learn how to assess and communicate with cloud vendors with security in mind.

  • Ensure Cloud Security in IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS Environments – Phase 3: Evaluate Vendors From a Security Perspective
  • IaaS and PaaS Service Level Agreement Template
  • SaaS Service Level Agreement Template
  • Cloud Security Communication Deck

4. Implement your secure cloud program

Turn your security requirements into specific tasks and develop your implementation roadmap.

  • Ensure Cloud Security in IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS Environments – Phase 4: Implement Your Secure Cloud Program
  • Cloud Security Roadmap Tool

5. Build a cloud security governance program

Build the organizational structure of your cloud security governance program.

  • Ensure Cloud Security in IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS Environments – Phase 5: Build a Cloud Security Governance Program
  • Cloud Security Governance Program Template

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