Defining a Shared Responsibility Model for Public Cloud Environments

Executive Summary

Cyberattacks are on the rise, and organizations of all sizes are being targeted daily with more sophisticated threats. With the explosion of public cloud adoption in recent years, cybercriminals are catching up and have found ways to broaden their attack scope that now includes both traditional infrastructure and cloud environments. It’s imperative that all organizations understand the strategic role they play in defending their cloud-based infrastructure from the breadth of vulnerabilities being exploited by cybercriminals. An important element of that defense is knowing which parts of the cloud they and their service providers are responsible for and, based on that, building plans for how they’ll protect their business and their users in the months and years to come.