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Cloud security best practices

Cloud security best practices

- [Instructor] Okay, so at this point we've covered a lot of cloud security, potential vulnerabilities and how you might mitigate their impacts. Let's focus now on cloud security best practices. As we're going through this discussion, I'd like you to think about how your organization is using cloud computing services and how some of the things that we will be talking about could apply, in terms of hardening those cloud services. Let's start with the cloud access security broker, CASB, otherwise just pronounced CASB. What is a CASB? Well, its purpose is to control access to cloud resources. Now, that's a pretty big umbrella statement. So what's that really mean? Well, it can mean data loss prevention. In other words, we want to make sure we limit data ex-filtration possibilities, sensitive data being taken out of the organization, such as from cloud services, like databases, or storage buckets. Cloud governance, which…

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