10 Rules for Better Cloud Security

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Introduction

It’s estimated that already 50% of all global corporate data is being stored in the cloud, which is quite telling about the explosive growth of this still relatively young sector. We all know the benefits which propelled this adoption: increased agility, ease of scaling, and cost-effectiveness.

But regarding security, things are more nuanced: for some, the idea of handling most if not all of one business’s most valuable assets to a third-party organization is a kind of crazy, but for the (vast majority) of the others, it totally makes sense. You can benefit from the enormous security resources put in place by the cloud providers to protect your data, with the very best engineers working 24/7 to fulfill their mission. Even though, this is not quite the end of the story.