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Cloud Security: Who Is Responsible for What

by Froga

The shared responsibility model across IaaS, PaaS and SaaS — which layers move to the provider, which never do, and why most cloud incidents are configuration rather than compromise.

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Moving from IaaS to SaaS hands over progressively more of the stack, but the top never moves. The provider cannot know which of your data is sensitive or who in your organisation should reach it. That is why those two rows stay yours in every model.

Under the shared responsibility model, which layers remain the customer's in every service model?

multiple choice

Data and identity/access management
The physical datacentre
The hypervisor
Nothing — SaaS transfers everything
Ask which layer a provider could not take over even if it wanted to.
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