Security is arguably the biggest hurdle to cloud adoption. It takes a lot of confidence for a company to delegate its security responsibilities to a cloud provider. There is that word confidence again. This lack of confidence is certainly understandable to some degree because security is a complicated topic with many layers. However, how can any company rapidly and continuously deliver innovation to market with the confidence that they have met all their security obligations? One of my customers put it best when he said, “There is no way I can build a system as secure as I can in the cloud, because I simply do not have the resources to do so.”
Every company has a value proposition and its core competencies are focused on that mission. When push comes to shove, because the time to market is of the essence, it is not unusual for security...
