Security and compliance game changers
There are numerous ways that the cloud can tilt the playing field in favor of defenders. In this section, I’ll cover two security and compliance game changers.
The power of APIs
Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) provide a powerful mechanism for systems to interact with humans and other systems. There are different kinds of APIs, but generally, APIs define the specific inputs a system is willing to accept and the outputs it will provide. The details of how the system processes inputs and provides outputs can be abstracted from view, thus simplifying the system for humans and other systems that want to use it. In other words, I don’t need to know how the system works internally in order to use it. I just need to know about its APIs. I can call an API and pass it the information it requires and then wait for the output, while the magic of software happens.
Magic here is a euphemism for all the smart engineers’...