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Examine risk and compliance requirements

Examine risk and compliance requirements

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Examine risk and compliance requirements

- [Instructor] As cloud computing grows in acceptance globally, many countries are viewing it as critical to national economics. This has driven a sort of data protectionism and a slow but accelerating move towards the adoption of cloud specific regulations. This section gives you a glimpse into some of these new laws. When adopting cloud, organizations must see the transition as an exercise in risk management. Risk is realized from a number of sources, which include policy and organization risk, which are related to the choices that a cloud service consumer makes about a cloud service provider. Outside of the IT industry, these are often called third-party risk. A few of the most noteworthy ones are provider lock-in, loss of governance, compliance challenges, and provider exit. Virtualization risks, which include guest breakout, can occur when there is a breakout of the guest OS tenant, so that they can access the…

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