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Selecting cloud security technology

Selecting cloud security technology

- My initial advice is not to get caught up with what others are doing. Focus on your needs for security. Make sure you test your tools. Never assume that things will work. Cloud security providers can't test every tool, and you could be the one configuration things don't work. So you need to find that out upfront. Continuing our process to assess your security needs, keep in mind that the objective is to leverage learnings from previous steps in the process and align your client to cloud security best practices. This means that we'll take what we've learned, align it with best practices, and use that to select the tool set. As we work to understand our security needs, we make conclusions as to what tools to pick based on the evolving processes and understanding thus far. At this point, we should know what the requirements are, including business and technical. Moreover, we should know what the best bets are in tools and technology that will most likely be the best use case. Our…

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