FINAL WORD
Gaps in cloud compliance
The move towards greater use of the cloud has followed growing concerns on the management and protection of data . Cyberthreats are continuing to evolve and accelerate , and the skills required to defend against are becoming more complex .
Regulations such as GDPR bring additional rights and safeguards for individuals , but the move towards cloud IT could expose a compliance gap – especially for organisations that handle personal data . Organisations that host their data on-premise in local storage systems should be in a position to identify the location of most – hopefully all – of their data quite quickly and those that host data elsewhere could have concerns over not knowing where the data is stored .
However , one of the challenges with public cloud adoption is the skills required to build and maintain it .
Do organisations have the skills to ensure that data which is stored on-premise is secure and compliant ? For many organisations , meeting compliance and regulatory requirements can be easier to achieve using private clouds . Just because organisations have outsourced their data storage , it doesn ’ t mean they can outsource responsibility for compliance , however . Organisations must ensure third-party cloud providers meet current standards and show due diligence . Complying with laws such as GDPR and penalties
Hybrid IT is about deciding which workloads should be deployed to the cloud and which should run on a company ’ s infrastructure .
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