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Shared Responsibility Model (Cloud)

Know who secures what

In cloud, providers secure the underlying infrastructure while customers secure identities, data, configs, and applications, with split duties shifting across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS models.

Understand Split

Provider handles hardware/network; you handle identities, data, and configs.

By Service Type

IaaS: most on you; PaaS: you own code/data; SaaS: you own access and data use.

Apply Controls

Enable MFA/SSO, backups, logging, and config baselines per model.

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