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How the shared responsibility model works

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How the shared responsibility model works

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If you look at the various cloud computing models together, you can see where the cloud providers responsibility ends and where the customer's responsibility begins. A general guideline for shared responsibility is that if you configure or store it, you're responsible for securing it. This generally means that a cloud provider is responsible for securing the parts of the cloud that it directly controls, such as hardware, networks, and physical security. At the same time, the customer is responsible for securing anything that they create within the cloud, such as the configurations, access policies, and user data. No matter which cloud provider you use, there is shared responsibility. Let's examine the ratios of responsibility between Google Cloud as a service provider and our customers. The blue squares represent the parts of the infrastructure security that the customer is responsible for. While the yellow squares represent the elements that Google Cloud is responsible for. Let's…

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