The Cloud Security Problem

Voice of the DBA

Your management gets a great demo from a cloud vendor and decides that the organization needs to implement the new service/application/etc. quickly. Your team tries to comply, furiously learning and experimenting with integrations, software changes, infrastructure configuration, and more. Things get deployed are working. Clients and management are happy with the new capabilities and you breathe a sigh of relief.

After a bit of time there's a security issue and all of a sudden there's blame pouring down on everyone. The vendor takes a hit because it's a public security problem, but the reality might be that your organization didn't completely understand how to configure strong security. The public doesn't blame your organization, but internally your team don't know how to make changes to ensure future security.

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