Understanding the Shared Responsibility Model for Cloud Security: How To Avoid Coverage Gaps and Confusion

Originally published by Tenable. Written by Tom Croll, Advisor at Lionfish Tech Advisors. Cloud security’s shared responsibility model (SRM) concept is key for cloud adoption, yet it’s very confusing. In this post, you’ll learn how to use this model, what its limitations are and how to improve it with three elements to identify control gaps. What is the shared responsibility model for cloud security? In the SRM, the "responsibility" is shared between the cloud service provider (CSP) and...

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