Security on the cloud should be a primary area of focus for you because it is a top-of-the-mind issue for your customers. You will need to robustly address these concerns because of the following:
- Customer trust: Customers come to our site expecting us to protect their information and keep it safe. We need to live up to that trust.
- Regulatory compliance: Increasingly, various regulations and compliance requirements are putting security front and center, especially for cloud-based data storage and applications. And data privacy is a huge part of that.
In order to protect your assets and data on the cloud, you will need to define an Information Security Management System (ISMS), and implement security policies and processes for your organization. While larger companies may have well-defined security controls already defined for their on-premises environments...