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NTT Cybersecurity Advisory with focus on Cloud Security Framework

Our comprehensive framework to protect your data on another's server.

Published June 2020
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Businesses are facing IT and data management challenges unlike those they’ve ever experienced. Big data and the globalization of the business landscape, coupled with increased time to market pressures and budget restrictions, have resulted in ad hoc infrastructure buildouts and high levels of complexity. This hampers the IT organization's ability to function efficiently. The cloud has become a perceived panacea for all these problems, but the journey to the cloud isn’t one that should be undertaken lightly. There are many potential pitfalls along the road, the most prominent of which is security.

Gartner analyst Jeffrey Wheatman comments in a recent research note that: “Security requirements and drivers in the cloud are different from those in traditional data center environments… The dynamic nature of the cloud, coupled with the lack of customer ownership of infrastructure and limited transparency, has essentially broken traditional security models and architectures.”

This paper examines the differences between cloud and on-premise security requirements and discusses what organizations should consider to securely and confidently make the shift to the cloud.