5-Step IaaS Security Checklist For Cloud Customers
SearchSecurity, Thursday, March 7th, 2024
Get expert advice on patching, data encryption, and identity and access management responsibilities in this enterprise IaaS security checklist.
Many organizations have almost completely replaced virtual data centers, on-premises servers and appliances with IaaS. This widespread implementation requires a mobilization to secure IaaS environments to match this increased usage.
With IaaS, the customer has more security responsibilities than in PaaS or SaaS environments. The shared responsibility model stipulates that the lower one goes in the stack, the more operational security tasks the customer takes on. For example, with SaaS, OS-focused tasks, such as OS patching, are out of the customer's control. In the IaaS model, however, the responsibility stays with customers because they have control over the workload -- in this case, a virtual compute image.