Title | IAM as a key player in the cloud transition |
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Summary | The idea of this draft article is to document how IAM is positioned in the various Shared Responsibility Models of CSPs and the role it may play to accompany organizations in their cloud transition. Feel free to contribute |
Summary
Cloud Service Providers have documented so-called Shared Responsibility Models. These are basically RACIs that helps delineate roles and responsibilities between CSPs and clients and function of the cloud models. The positioning of IAM in this context is of special interest to us.
AWS
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Microsoft
In Microsoft, 2020, Microsoft describes how security teams should adapt their strategy to accompany organizations in their transition to the cloud. They cite their shared responsibility model and interestingly position IAM exactly at the juncture point between the on-premises world and the cloud.
Figure 1. The Microsoft Shared Responsibility Model. Highlights added.
This is high lighted in green and yelllow in the above figure.
Contributors
- David Doret 2 (1503 days ago)
