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Create Your Cloud Security Technology Strategy And Road Map

Current Security Strategies And Road Maps Are Inadequate To Mitigate Cloud Risk

September 14, 2016

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Cloud workloads are here, and as the CISO, it's your responsibility to protect them. To protect your sensitive data in the cloud from security breaches, privacy abuses, and other incidents, you need an overarching strategy and a detailed road map that includes cloud discovery and workload management, data protection, activity and threat monitoring, data loss prevention, and identity and access management. This report helps CISOs create a cloud security technology strategy and road map with a systematic and repeatable process.

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Table of Contents

  • You Must Develop A Comprehensive Cloud Security Strategy
  • Introducing Forrester's Cloud Security Strategy Life Cycle
  • Stage No. 1: Define The Business Justification For Cloud Security
  • Stage No. 2: Identify Your Stakeholders And Their Security Needs
  • Stage No. 3: Define Your Cloud Security Governance Process
  • Stage No. 4: Assess Current Technology And Identify Gaps
  • Stage No. 5: Create Your Three-Year Technology Road Map
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