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Examining risk and compliance requirements

Examining risk and compliance requirements

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Examining risk and compliance requirements

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- [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 the 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 the cloud service provider. Outside of the IT industry, these are often called third-party risk. A few of the most note worthy ones are provider lock-in, loss of governance, compliance challenges and provider exit. Virtualization risk which include guest breakout can occur when there is a breakout of the guest OS tenant so that they can access their hypervisor or other guest. This is facilitated by hypervisor flaws…

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