Management and governance

The ease of use associated with to opening an account and using cloud services creates the risk of abuse in the provisioning and consumption of cloud-based services. Cloud industry leaders often highlight this risk as a significant security risk. Organizations must, therefore, establish strict management and governance procedures. Recommendations are to include tracking for initiation and use of cloud services like storage, databases, and message queue volumes. Establishment and enforcement of governance are critical to successfully following government regulations, as well as industry and geography-specific policies.