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Cloud Security For Dummies
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Cloud Security For Dummies

by Ted Coombs
March 2022
Beginner
384 pages
9h 56m
English
For Dummies
Audiobook available
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Chapter 1

Clouds Aren’t Bulletproof

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Taking charge of cloud security

Bullet Building a security team

Bullet Coming up with a risk management plan

Bullet Taking on security responsibilities

Bullet Letting cloud service providers handle some of the security

All the great innovators have been known to “have their head in the clouds.” Now it’s your turn. Cloud computing is one of the greatest innovations of modern computing since the Internet, but with all its many benefits come certain responsibilities. One vital responsibility is the management of security. You can think of clouds as Infrastructure Elsewhere, but the security of all infrastructure must be managed. In this chapter, I spell out the basics of getting to know your business so that you can best create a security plan, which is the first step toward optimal application and data security when using clouds.

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