More and more customers we talk to about cloud adoption have two seemingly opposing priorities in mind:
- Broadening their cloud use cases to more business critical applications in production
- Addressing the ever increasing IT compliance requirements that are demanded of them
Achieving ISO compliance is a big deal and a lot of work! Some of you reading this may be drowning under a sea of ISO paperwork on your desks right now. So, after putting in the hard yards achieving ISO compliance, the prospect of putting data and apps into the cloud and risking a compliance audit failure forces many IT leaders to think twice about leveraging cloud.
With the right people, processes and technology in place, IT leaders can leverage cloud service providers to help achieve ISO 27001 compliance – even more easily than they could achieve it with on-premise infrastructure. IT needs to ensure their cloud service provider has the security capabilities in place – as well as the compliance reporting capabilities and, even more importantly, the willingness to help them maintain ISO compliance for their cloud workloads.
If you’d like to learn more about cloud compliance, watch out “A-Z on cloud compliance” presentation on demand.
