Cloud Native Architectures

Risk, compliance, and quality assurance

The risk profile of a company is higher as it moves to the cloud, at least initially. This is not because the cloud is a risky place, quite the opposite; it's because there are new ways for problems to occur that a company must understand. Once company assets (data, and code, for example) are migrated to compute resources located outside of its direct control, there must be additional considerations regarding how to keep those resources secure. Following industry compliance standards is a critical first step to ensuring that the basics are met for the data collected by the company. In addition, the governance of processes and auditing these processes will ensure that nothing slips by that could cause ...