From the course: Cloud Security Concepts: Services and Compliance

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Selecting the right cloud security services

Selecting the right cloud security services

- [Instructor] It's important to understand cloud management as well as agility in selecting your cloud services. Let's take a deeper look at how to select a cloud security service step by step. When considering cloud security, the ideal is to maximize risk management as well as maximize agility. Typically, the more advanced your security tool, the more you'll be able to manage risk better. You'll also be able to change around using the tool, or agility. For example, the use of IAM allows you to leverage security using identities of humans, applications, data, et cetera, and this allows you to configure your security in the ways that are best for the business. The idea is to advance through your security program majority through five basic steps or majority levels. Level one, basics, meaning that you're just leveraging the fundamentals of cloud security, including user ID and password. Level two, layered tools. You're adding more tools to include directory management, which may enable…

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