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Cloud Security
From the course: Developing Secure Software
Cloud Security
- [Speaker] Cloud computing is a dominant trend in the software industry these days. Many of the computer applications we depend on today are cloud-based. Microsoft Office 365 and Google Docs are good examples. We call these products software as a service or SaaS because companies offer their services as an online subscription through a web browser rather than a local installation on customer's computers. Cloud computing is not only affecting how we sell software, but also how we develop it. Much of our software development environment is now in the cloud. Take code repositories. We no longer store our code locally on our laptops or PCs. Instead, we use a service like GitHub. We don't deploy our code to a physical server anymore either. Instead, we install it on a virtual machine or VM that shares the same data center rack with other VMs. The data center housing, the physical server running the VMs could be on the opposite side of the globe from where the user is. These are just a few…