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Map to security and governance

Map to security and governance

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Map to security and governance

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- Of course, selecting a set of security tools and technology by leveraging our requirements is perhaps the most important aspect of making design decisions around your cloud-based solution. Thus, this is not only our ability to pick the right security approaches and technologies, but also to do so around a meta-design and framework that spans the entire enterprise. So, keep in mind that we're talking about security in the narrow sense here, but it needs to work and play well with the security in the wide. Narrow refers to solution details, such as encryption methods. Wide refers to the most holistic solutions, such as leveraging identity and access management as the overall approach. Governance works in tandem with security, and that is why we deal with it at this planning stage. Again, governance provides the ability to place limitations on how we deal with large and small resources, such as APIs and cloud storage. This allows us to deal with very powerful assets, such as sensitive…

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