Chapter 7

Cloud Security Meets the Real World

We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be; we shall fight on the beaches, landing grounds, in fields, in the streets and on the hills. We shall never surrender.

— Winston Churchill

Why wait until Chapter 7 to get into cloud security? At this point in the book, you might realize that cloud security must now cover so many things that it’s difficult to figure out where storage, compute, databases, AI, and cloud architecture end and cloud security begins.

In the past, security systems could be bolted on during or even at the end of an IT project cycle without too much trouble. In the case of cloud security, that’s no longer true. Many enterprises will learn this cloud security lesson in hard ...

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