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Protecting your systemsChapter 10

Cloud and SaaS: who protects what?

Shared responsibility, misconfigurations, identities and MFA, logging and sovereignty: how to secure your use of cloud and SaaS, with real cases.

Nestor
Presented byNestor
10 min readUpdated on 2 October 2026

What you will learn

  • Understand the shared responsibility model across IaaS, PaaS and SaaS
  • Recognise the misconfigurations behind the biggest cloud data leaks
  • Protect cloud identities with MFA and least privilege
  • Switch on and retain the logs that reveal an intrusion
  • Place SecNumCloud, the CLOUD Act and the Data Act in your choice of provider

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