Chapter 5Cloud Security Operations
Cloud security operations comprise a mix of old and new practices for understanding, mitigating, and monitoring security risks in an organization's cloud environments. Old practices include standard activities that apply to legacy or on-premises IT, such as legal and regulatory compliance management, as well as novel activities like orchestrating cloud infrastructure by writing virtual machine (VM) definitions instead of physically installing new hardware and software.
Key to cloud security operations are the two main roles in cloud computing: the cloud service provider (CSP) and the cloud consumer. The CSP and consumer share responsibilities for securely operating and using the cloud, respectively, and ...
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