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6 KEY USE CASES FOR SECURING
YOUR ORGANIZATION’S
CLOUD WORKLOADS
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Today, an increasing number of organizations
are taking advantage of the benefits of cloudbased
infrastructure by making the journey to
public, private and hybrid cloud environments. Some
that are further along in their cloud journeys leverage
DevOps pipelines to increase their business agility,
while others focus on cost savings and access to ondemand
compute.
The business benefits are very real, but as more
business-critical applications and services migrate
to the cloud, ensuring the security of these cloud
workloads becomes essential – as does the need to
maintain and enforce enterprise-wide security policies
in a consistent way. As cloud vendors including AWS,
Azure and Google make clear, security in the cloud is
a shared responsibility.
Though the public cloud vendors take great efforts
to secure the cloud infrastructure – compute,
storage, etc – their customers are fully responsible for
protecting basically everything above the hypervisor,
including the operating system, applications, data,
access to external resources and other assets and
infrastructure. While the benefits of cloud computing
are very real for organizations, so too are the
responsibilities around ensuring the security of the
organization’s cloud workloads.
The vulnerabilities within the organization’s cloud
workloads are also very real, as some unfortunate
organizations have found to their peril. The following
examples represent some of the common use cases
and approaches organizations should take to secure
their cloud workloads. •
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