IT Infrastructure
Reviewed by the Fully Compliance editorial team Short answer: The shared responsibility model divides cloud security between provider and customer. The provider secures physical infrastructure, hypervisors, and the network backbone. You secure everything from the operating system upward in IaaS, from the application layer upward in PaaS, and user access
IT Infrastructure
Reviewed by the Fully Compliance editorial team Short answer: Google Workspace includes strong security capabilities, but many are not enabled by default. Securing Workspace requires intentional configuration: integrate SSO with your identity provider, enforce MFA organization-wide, set up SPF/DKIM/DMARC email authentication, restrict file sharing to appropriate boundaries,
IT Infrastructure
Reviewed by the Fully Compliance editorial team Short answer: AWS gives you full control over your cloud infrastructure, which means security is entirely your responsibility from the operating system upward. Default configurations are not secure. You must intentionally build in IAM least-privilege access, restrictive security groups, private S3 buckets,
IT Infrastructure
Reviewed by the Fully Compliance editorial team Short answer: Azure provides the cloud platform, but securing what you build on it is entirely your responsibility. Security starts with identity management through Microsoft Entra ID and least-privilege RBAC, extends through restrictive network security groups and hardened virtual machines, and requires
IT Infrastructure
Reviewed by the Fully Compliance editorial team Short answer: Microsoft 365 includes extensive security features, but default configuration is permissive rather than secure. Hardening M365 requires enforcing MFA for all users, implementing least-privilege identity management through Entra ID, configuring data loss prevention for sensitive data, enabling threat protection and
IT Infrastructure
Reviewed by the Fully Compliance editorial team Short answer: IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS describe how much responsibility your cloud provider takes on versus how much sits on you. IaaS gives you virtual machines and you manage everything from the OS up. PaaS gives you a managed platform and you manage