How to Optimize Security Operations in the Cloud Through the Lens of the NIST Framework

Description: The use of cloud services by businesses and government agencies has grown rapidly, with the movement of production workloads to infrastructure as a service (IaaS) growing at more than 35 percent per year.1 This move to cloud-based services has required security programs to extend operations beyond the data center and to re-evaluate security architectures, processes and controls to maintain effectiveness and efficiency in their efforts to secure their sensitive business applications, be they local or cloud-based.