Summary 

As more and more organizations are adopting the hybrid cloud platform, a large part of their IT infrastructure is moved to the cloud provider's control. This brings new challenges for the IT operations team with respect to IT security and data security. It is therefore essential that the hybrid cloud administrators become completely aware of the possible security threats and implement measures to deal with such risks. 

This chapter focused on various security threats and discussed different measures to minimize the impact of these threats. With more and more organizations migrating to the hybrid cloud platform and with the cloud technology maturing, the day is not far away when traditional data centers will soon become obsolete.