CHAPTER 13

Security as a Service

This chapter covers the following topics from Domain 13 of the CSA Guidance:

•   Potential Benefits and Concerns of SecaaS

•   Major Categories of Security as a Service Offerings

Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.

—Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr

The more things change, the more they stay the same. That’s what we’re looking at when it comes to Security as a Service (SaaS).

Everything I have covered up to now has been focused on understanding the shared responsibilities of the cloud. You’ve seen the aspects of security that the provider and the customer are responsible for. This chapter looks at how cloud services (typically SaaS and Platform as a Service [PaaS]) can be used to secure assets deployed in both ...

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