Cloud security 101: Get a little more intimate with your provider
Summary
These days, cloud service providers will take care of everything from email scanning through to watching where your employees surf (and stopping them from going there, if necessary). But the odds are that you’ve got some on-premises apps that you don’t want to send skywards, so that cloud IAM might need to integrate with Active Directory on your site, creating another layer of complexity. “There’s definitely a barrier to fully consuming that type of service.” In addition, the cloud is also creating entirely new categories of security service. Many cloud-based security services will be more interested in metadata, though, which while still sensitive, isn’t of as much concern as real business content, he points out. Eventually, if you get good enough at using cloud technology, you’ll see it fuse with your internal IT processes to become a platform that just pervades everything, whether on-premises or off, up and down the stack.