The cloud provides enterprises with almost unlimited processing power, storage, services and productivity applications, enabling high-growth, incredible efficiencies and economies of scale. With all that power comes a range of challenges, requiring businesses to ensure security beyond the firewall for a growing distributed workforce, protecting data and communications through a strong cloud security posture.
One of the common myths surrounding cloud security is that cloud service providers are responsible for data security. All they provide as part of their service level agreement or contract is a secure connection to well-protected applications on strongly defended servers.
Not all providers are equal, and some will do more or less to ensure customer safety. The rest is up to the business, as part of shared responsibility, ensuring that access rights are well-maintained, verification that data is secure and building awareness of the many risks that threaten cloud users as much as on-premises users.