Add Cloud Services to Your Portfolio

When managing the security of your Cloud, ask the following questions:

• Is your company demonstrating good security hygiene when using cloud services?
• Is the cloud services provider demonstrating good security hygiene in operating the cloud services that you consume?

Instructions

1. Go to the Tier Settings page to create a tier for managing your cloud services.

2. We’ll use “Cloud Services” in our examples. Depending on the service provider, refer to the following instructions:

   Cloud Service Provider	Instructions
   Amazon and AWS	Cloud Services	Explore the AWS Ratings Tree and subscribe to the services that your company uses. Add those subscriptions to your “Cloud Services” tier.
   	Corporate Security	Add Amazon.com Inc to a normal tier.
   Rackspace	Cloud Services	Subscribe to Rackspace - Dedicated Hosting and/or Rackspace - Products and Services. Add those subscriptions to your “Cloud Services” tier.
   	Corporate Security	Add Rackspace - Corporate to a normal tier.
   Microsoft Office 365	Cloud Services	Add the services you use from Office 365 to your “Cloud Services” tier.
   	Corporate Security	We have not yet curated a Corporate rating for Microsoft. If you would like to monitor this segment of Microsoft, please contact your Customer Success Manager and they will facilitate an introduction to the Bitsight Strategic Partnerships team.

3. Track the cloud IP addresses that are discovered in the Bitsight platform via DNS attribution located in their IP Addresses tab.

Here’s an example of how your portfolio might look after these changes:

Recommendations

• If you are interested in having a dialogue with a particular cloud service provider about their rating (which will best reflect the people, processes, and tools that operate the cloud infrastructure), we recommend focusing on the “Corporate” rating as a way to have this conversation.
• For large cloud service providers, we recommend informing your Customer Success Manager in parallel with your outreach so we can offer any guidance along the way.
• Subsequent conversations about the ratings of individual cloud services may help you understand the potential areas that you’ll need to explore within your own company to determine the level of responsibility that you have for securing those resources. See Shared Responsibility with Cloud Service Providers.