Introduction to compliance with regulatory requirements and industry best practices
Law and regulations are mandatory for any organization conducting business, storing and processing sensitive data (such as PII, credit card information, healthcare information, and more), and serving customers in either private or public environments, and the cloud environment is no different.
Standards are optionally considered as a best practice and, in many cases, provide an organization leverage for conducting business—for example, compliance with ISO 27001 shows customers and business partners that an organization has achieved a certain level of maturity in information security management (ISM).
The best way to manage compliance in cloud services as an automated and ongoing process is to constantly review your entire cloud environment, present the information, dashboards, and reports, and fix settings and resources that are in a non-compliant status.
