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Organization hierarchy models
From the course: Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK) Cert Prep
Organization hierarchy models
- [Instructor] The organization management domain has five questions associated with it on the exam. Let's start off talking about organizational hierarchy in the cloud. The major cloud providers such as AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure employ varying terminology for managing security through levels that we refer to as hierarchies. They are present in these three layers that Cloud Security Alliance calls: organization, group, and deployment. Explaining the different security management approaches as hierarchical models helps maintain a unified understanding across multiple platforms. As with all cloud technologies, naming conventions may change over time. However, the descriptions provided in this video were accurate at the time of filming. For instance, AWS and GCP used the term organization to describe a cloud consumers top level of resource consumption. Azure refers to the top level as a tenant. The level below the organization is the group level. AWS labels these organizational units.…
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