So the key question is, what should organizations be doing to make their cloud infrastructure more secure? Short answer: Take your shared responsibility seriously.

The Capital One security fiasco has underlined that securing the cloud is both a complicated technology and contractual problem.

The shared responsibility model (SRM) delineates what you, the cloud customer is responsible for, and what your cloud service provider is responsible for.

A Three-Tier Framework The shared responsibility model is a cloud security framework commonly used by CSPs like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, explaining where their ...

Amazon Web Services is forming a new parent company and 3 subsidiaries in Germany as part of a sovereign cloud the company is launching in the EU.

Much is made of shared responsibility for cloud security. But Oliver Tavakoli, CTO at Vectra AI, notes there's no guarantee that Azure or AWS are delivering services in a hardened and secure manner.

This time around, the victims were countless Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers who don’t seem to understand the shared responsibility model of cloud infrastructure.

One of the greatest draws of cloud computing is the promise of greater security. Cloud service providers typically have greater expertise and budget to dedicate to securing their services than ...

This is called the Shared Responsibility Model. Amazon Web Services describes the distinction as AWS being responsible for security "of" the cloud, and the customer having responsibility "in" the ...

From the very beginning, public cloud environments like AWS represented a reduced security burden for the companies taking advantage of them. The basic shared responsibility model -- still in ...