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Chapter 1

cloud characteristic

  • broad network access
  • on demand self-service
  • resource pooling
  • rapid elasticity
  • metered service

functional requirements: Those performance aspects of a device, process, or employee that are necessary for the business task to be accomplished

nonfunctional requirements: Those aspects of a device, process, or employee that are not necessary for accomplishing a business task but are desired or expected

why do we need to know the business requirements as a cloud security engineers?

-> Because business requirements tell us exactly what the organization needs to run successfully, which guide every security and cloud decision.

Quantifying benefits: means measuring the money you save by moving to the cloud, like cutting capital or personnel expenses.

Opportunity cost is the value of that saved money being used for something else instead.

Business Requirements

  1. inventory of all assets
  2. valuation of each asset: much an asset is worth to your business
  3. determination of critical paths, processes, and assets
  4. clear understanding of risk appetite