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Time
12 hours 57 minutes
Difficulty
Intermediate
CEU/CPE
13
Video Transcription
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>> We're going to be talking about public
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cloud deployments in this session.
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Our objectives are really to just
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define the elements of the public cloud,
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talk about the benefits of the public cloud,
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as well as the limitations.
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The main benefit of
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public cloud deployments are that
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its low cost, it's easily available,
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you just can connect to this public cloud over
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the Internet and begin either running applications,
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starting environments, or putting your data in there
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to access some publicly available service.
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The benefit of that is that at low cost,
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partially because this is a multi-tenant environment,
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that means multiple customers are
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going to be running their applications,
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or using shared applications that are
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running on the same set of underlying hardware.
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Although these benefits of it
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being shared to everyone in low cost,
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it also creates many of
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the risks that are associated with the public cloud.
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Because the public cloud is available to
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so many different companies and individuals,
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the data that goes in there,
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it's stored often on
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the same system and on the same hardware.
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It really isn't the appropriate place
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for highly sensitive information.
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If for instance, there's a lower sensitivity,
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the public cloud is a good option for that.
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But anything that's very highly sensitive,
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such as personally identifiable information,
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health information,
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anything that's very confidential
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or secretive to the organization,
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the public cloud probably isn't
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the best deployment solution for that information.
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There are lots of examples of public clouds.
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All of the large hosting
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>> providers, AWS, Microsoft Azure,
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>> Google Cloud, they
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offer public cloud operative options,
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and this is great for anyone who wants
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to learn about the cloud,
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spin up and break down environments,
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and do so worth at very little cost.
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There are lots of
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applications that have their own cloud;
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Oracle Cloud, Salesforce,
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IBM, many of them offer
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traditional cloud services as well
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as their own applications in the cloud.
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Many individuals may be surprised
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to learn that applications that they use,
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the Dropbox Storage Service or AppleCloud,
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those are public clouds as well.
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Let's take a moment to reflect on the public cloud.
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What are the reasons that a company might
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use a public cloud deployment model?
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Well, they really want an affordable,
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easily accessible option to do storage,
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or put applications out in
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the cloud that aren't really
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processing highly sensitive information.
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That dovetails into the next question
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or the reasons a company might want
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to avoid using the public cloud. It's the public cloud.
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You really have to ensure that you're preferably
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protecting your information and
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through encryption out there,
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and because so many different people have
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access to these cloud platforms,
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public clouds are innately more risky
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because information can rid
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or be accessed by
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unauthorized parties if
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things aren't configured properly.
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Basically, the more people
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>> will have access to the cloud,
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>> the more opportunity there are for
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threat actors to try and exploit vulnerabilities,
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and any security lapses that occur in the public cloud
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create potential opportunities for
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information to become compromised.
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Then we talked about some of the public clouds
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they might use every day in work or personal life,
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such as that AppleCloud,
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you're putting your latest pictures
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up there accessing music.
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You should think about some of the other public clouds
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specifically that you use
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>> at work or your personal life.
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>> In this module, we talked about
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the benefits of using that public cloud,
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cheap, easily accessible.
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The limitations of the public cloud,
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well, the more people will have access to it,
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it raises the risk and likelihood
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that security-related risks can compound a curb.
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We talked about examples of public clouds as well
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as those that are used by
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businesses as well as individuals.
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