Cloud-10 Regulatory Compliance

R3: Regulatory Compliance
Customers are ultimately responsible for the security and compliance with regulatory laws (e.g., SOX, HIPAA etc) of their own applications that are hosted in cloud. Data stewards and application owners must plan to put timely audits in place to ensure proper controls in the applications and infrastructure that is hosted at a cloud provider. Companies that are planning to adopt cloud (SaaS, Iaas, Paas etc) must ensure that their cloud provider understand the respective roles and responsbilities (RACI etc) in helping out customers in maintaining required compliance with the appropriate regulatory laws and standards (government and commercial).

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