New Requirements for Security and Compliance Auditing in the Cloud

Dec 9, 2011 | Cloud, Featured White Papers, Inside the Briefcase, Security

Learn how to prepare for cloud computing and how to manage IT security and compliance within the cloud.

With the proliferation of cloud computing, how does an organization manage IT security, compliance, and audit? Cloud computing poses new challenges for IT security, compliance and audit professionals who must protect corporate data and IT assets, and verify compliance of security controls.

This white paper begins with a definition of cloud computing and its various models, explains how cloud computing is changing assumptions about security, and provides guidelines for auditors who must verify the effectiveness of security controls used within a cloud computing system. Cloud adoption is real, so learn how to prepare your organization, tools, and processes for these changes before migration begins.

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