Enterprise Cloud Security and Governance

Audit challenges in the cloud

An audit can be defined as conducting an official inspection of a particular service or a product.

In order to audit, there needs to be a well-defined document that contains a clear view of what exactly needs to be audited, how it needs to be audited, and that also defines the success and failure criteria for the audit.

During the times where an organization had on-premise servers, auditors had full visibility of the servers and networks and, also, the accountability. However, in the cloud, one doesn't really have any visibility about the underlying network and even the accountability is challenging. This makes auditing in the cloud a challenge for the auditors:

• Visibility: This is one of the major challenges ...