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Top 10 Reasons To Implement Least Privilege For Your Clouds

June 27, 2011

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In the spirit of keeping blog posts informative, short and fun, this one takes a cue from David Letterman in format. So without further fanfare or wasted space... the Top 10 Reasons to Implement Least Privilege for Public, Private and Hybrid Clouds are: #10 - Andy the admin at won't be able to use their admin privileges to your instantiation of a public cloud for data theft. #9 - Clara, your server admin can't instantiate a new server used for private cloud applications that will facilitate one business unit admin from poking in on the data from other business units' instantiation of a cloud app on the same server. #8 - Sid in development won't be able to code in a back door for privileged access to your hybrid cloud architecture. #7 - Harry, the industrious business unit admin won't be able to "tune" you your private cloud to what he read was "optimal" on Seth Grodin's latest blog. #6 - Ted in Tech Support won't be able to change cloud file permissions without the proper policy-driven permissions just because it made his job easier today. #5 - Barney, the new business unit manager won't be able to blame "mistaken identity" for missing his quarterly goal because he read that was something that happens when cloud security goes bad. #4 - Sam, the CSO won't continue to lose sleep at night fretting over who can hijack admin privileges for any public, private or hybrid instantiation of their corporate infrastructure. #3 - John, the CEO won't get called out in the press for a data breach after moving all data to what he thought was a secure, lower-cost private and hybrid cloud. #2 - Vito, a member of the hacker's guild, won't be able to take advantage of the cloud streamlining the efficiency of identity theft. #1 - Bill, the chairman of the board won't have to explain why he needs to spend $100,000,000 to fix a cloud data breach problem with the statement "at least it's not as much as Sony had to spend for it's breach."

Scott Lang, Sr. Director, Product Marketing at BeyondTrust

Scott Lang has nearly 20 years of experience in technology product marketing, currently guiding the product marketing strategy for BeyondTrust’s privileged account management solutions and vulnerability management solutions. Prior to joining BeyondTrust, Scott was director of security solution marketing at Dell, formerly Quest Software, where he was responsible for global security campaigns, product marketing for identity and access management and Windows server management.

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