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Compliance

Compliance is a derivative of overall security. A compliant environment is generally a secure one, because it adheres to best practices governing the use, maintenance, and operation of a given dataset or environment. In order to achieve compliance, administrators need to provide documentation, audit trails, and demonstrate operational controls to third-party auditing parties that certify compliance. In a cloud environment, the segregation of duties between the cloud provider and the cloud consumer for security mean that the two organizations need to work together to achieve compliance. Cloud providers do this by providing automated tools to access and generate compliance reports for the cloud providers' portion of the security ...