Phase 9 · Cloud Security

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Shared Responsibility Model

Part of the Cybersecurity Roadmap.

Summary

The cloud provider secures the underlying infrastructure; you're responsible for securing what you configure and deploy on top of it — misunderstanding this split is a common source of real cloud breaches.

How to Learn This

  • 1Read your target cloud provider's official shared responsibility model diagram.
  • 2List 3 specific things that remain your responsibility even on a fully managed cloud service.
  • 3Learn why 'the cloud got hacked' is almost always actually a customer misconfiguration.
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