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Cloud compliance and governance

Cloud compliance and governance

From the course: Cloud Governance Concepts: Tools and Requirements

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Cloud compliance and governance

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- [Narrator] Compliance needs adhering to laws, regulations, or policies that limits a business's ability to do business. Lacking the ability to manage compliance puts the business at risk, considering that this may come with heavy fines, PR issues, or in some instances criminal prosecution. Thus, those using cloud systems employ cloud governance to adhere to these restrictions. Many cloud governance systems are also leveraged for compliance operations. Examples of compliance and cloud governance might include the ability to restrict access to medical systems based on credentials of specific users. In some countries, non-doctors can't see patient data. The ability to restrict access to storage systems across some country borders when not allowed by nation specific laws, or the ability to restrict financial data moving outside a specific country, which is the law in the EU or the European Union. Cloud governance to deal with compliance issues is a good use of this technology…

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