Cloud compliance ensures that cloud computing services meet the compliance requirements of enterprise customers. However, enterprises adopting cloud services should not assume that every cloud company necessarily meets the organization’s unique requirements because compliance-related service offerings vary.
Data transfer, storage, backup, retrieval, and access necessitate cloud compliance. While IT tends to be in charge of implementing compliance, other functions or formal departments may (and probably should) be involved. This involvement includes decision-making, monitoring and audits, governance, security, data protection, risk management and legal.
Compliance is a very serious topic that should be understood in considerable depth, since compliance failures can lead to regulatory fines, lawsuits, cybersecurity incidents and reputational damage. It is therefore important to understand the details of what your cloud provider offers and what your company requires.
This article provides an overview of cloud compliance considerations and lists some of the services that are common among the top three…
