Cloud Security

Fundamentals of Cloud Security and auditing

Cloud Computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand, network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction.

benefits:

  1. Pay as you go

  2. Shift from Capex to Opex (capital expense to Operating expense)

  3. Economic benefits.

  4. Scalable, elastic -> bill just for what you use

  5. increased speed and efficiency

  6. easy global expansion

5 essential characteristics of cloud computing

On-demand self service

Broad network access

Reource pooling

Rapid elasticity

Measured Service

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