Chapter 12

Securing Cloud and Hybrid Cloud Services

The convenience of consuming cloud and hybrid cloud services has many organizations interested in transitioning to their use. The purpose of this chapter is to help organizations that are interested in making the transition understand what mechanisms are available so that they do not have to trade the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data and services for the convenience of a cloud platform. In a recent survey conducted by International Data Corporation (IDC), 80 percent of IT decision makers said that they have completed or are in the process of a cloud repatriation process. This means that their organizations are moving applications and associated data out of public cloud ...

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