A recent IT Brew article highlights a major cloud security gap: only 49% of surveyed IT and cybersecurity professionals are familiar with the "shared responsibility model," which defines the division of security duties between cloud providers and customers. Nick Franklin emphasized the common misunderstanding around these responsibilities, urging customers to ask their providers directly about what they are responsible for. Clear accountability, as outlined by the model, is key to preventing security issues like breaches and data loss.
Originally published in IT Brew.
“There is 100% [an ambiguity] between what I think most economic buyers and users of products and services believe is inherent to those services they’re buying against the backdrop of reality,” [Franklin] said, adding that the shared responsibility model works to disambiguate this information.
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