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Over the past years, many businesses have moved or engaged with the cloud by using a Cloud Service Provider (CSP). A Cloud Service Provider is a company that offers some component of cloud computing in the form of infrastructure as a service, software as a service, or platform as a service. <\/strong>The Cloud Security Alliance<\/a> takes it one step further: \u201cA Cloud Service is any system that provides on-demand availability of computer system resources, e.g; data storage and computing power, without direct active management by the user.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For many new businesses and start-ups the approach has been to adopt a cloud-first approach and use cloud service providers for the majority of their systems. This approach simplified their adoption of IT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rush to migrate to the cloud<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

But since the beginning of 2020, many organizations rushed to deploy remote and hybrid work environments<\/a>. They accelerated their migration to the cloud as they scrambled to ensure their businesses could operate while supporting staff to work remotely.<\/strong> Many businesses rapidly migrated from on-premise solutions to cloud service providers. Their goal was to quickly provide cloud service based applications to their staff and customers. While this rush to the cloud might have addressed immediate business needs, it may not have included the appropriate steps to evaluate any security risks or regulatory impacts on the business.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prior to 2020, the approach by businesses was to migrate systems to the cloud in a controlled manner.<\/strong> Examples include moving email from on-premise to a cloud based solution, or the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system from their own internal systems to the cloud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s important to evaluate the security of your cloud service provider<\/svg><\/span><\/a>, whether you rushed into migrating to the cloud or not.<\/strong> Using the cloud is trusting your business to an external third party. So the question you need to consider is this: How can I ensure that a third party is protecting my data, my systems, and ultimately, my business and reputation in the most appropriate way? In other words, how much can I trust my cloud service provider?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is a cloud service provider and why are they important?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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What is a cloud service provider?<\/h2>\n <\/div>\n
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According to the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) the cloud is defined as an on-demand service model for IT provision, often based on virtualization and distributed computing technologies.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

“Cloud computing architectures have:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n