Cloud Security Best Practices Derived from Mission Thread Analysis

This report presents four important security practices that are practical and effective for improving the cybersecurity posture of cloud-deployed information technology (IT) systems. These practices help to address the risks, threats, and vulnerabilities that organizations face in deploying or moving applications and systems to a cloud service provider (CSP).

The practices address cloud security issues that consumers are experiencing, illustrated by several recent cloud security incidents. The report demonstrates the practices through examples using cloud services available from Amazon Web Service (AWS), Microsoft, and Google.