Five questions to ask your cloud security solutions partner

Confidence in security is key to deploying any service that gets hands on with your data, and that especially true when the cloud is thrown into the mix. It's a given that you would expect your chosen provider to be both aware of and implement security best practice end to end across the deployment and ongoing usage lifecycle spectrum; but expectation and due diligence are entirely different animals. In order to ensure that you are entering into a relationship with the right cloud solutions partner you need to be asking the right questions relating to the security of your data. Good security is all about balance in implementation (between usability and functionality, risk and reward) and that includes performing due diligence in your choice of CSP. Here are five questions that you really should be asking of yours...