1Tectonic Shifts

1.1 Disruptive Forces

We have all been bombarded by cloud computing and mobility in the past year. We have heard it from our executive who walked through the door with the newest gadget and wants it on the company’s network pronto. We’ve been asked by our marketing division to provision the entire department with Mac® computers. We find out, after the fact, that our development team has procured capabilities on Amazon® Web Services (AWS) and is putting company information assets in the public cloud. Every major security conference we attend has helpful servings of cloud and mobility sessions.

These disruptive technologies are not buzzwords that are on the hype cycle 1 minute, but are replaced by other trends the next. They ...

Get Securing Cloud and Mobility now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.