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Need for IT governance

Need for Cloud Governance

Ever since cloud technology has turned into a mainstream IT resource, security and compliance have been its major issues. Not every cloud deployment sees success, and not every cloud project yields the desired results for its organisation. However, most IT decision makers have come to terms with the fact that when coupled with the right tools and strategies, cloud usage can surpass the security offered by in-house legacy applications and emerge as a true game changer. Cloud governance plays a vital role in this capability. By implementing cloud governance, organisations can avoid the following issues:
• Security and privacy risks: Which may arise due to unauthorised downloads/ installation of software, storage of illegal data and access to restricted sites by users.
• Vendor lock-in: Many vendors opt for this, as this clause causes organisations to depend on the cloud service provider (or vendor) for products and services. The clause is usually made part of the agreement, and as a result, it does not the organisations to bring in another vendor to work on different modules for a specific period of time. This can be avoided by making changes to the SLA suitably and reduce dependencies on a single vendor, thus ensuring freedom to the organisation.
• Cloud Sprawl: Happens when employees of different departments use different programs and cloud infrastructure from third party providers without involving the IT department and getting necessary approvals. Employees usually utilise free cloud services like Google Drive, Dropbox etc. for many of their official work as it is free and there are not much of approvals required. If not detected and restricted, crowd sprawl may lead to fragmented, redundant, inefficient and unmanaged cloud programs sitting on the enterprise cloud and unnecessarily creating trouble.
• Shadow IT and unwarranted usage of cloud resources: Happens when employees in various departments do not follow the rules and regulations as imposed by the IT department on cloud usage resulting in security breach and fragmented control throughout the organisation. This leads to not getting sufficient results from the cloud in the long run.
• Lack of data portability and interoperability: Happens when the cloud service provider or the inbuilt cloud infrastructure is incapable of connecting well with other Introduction to software and products outside the organisation. This may also lead to modules not compatible with each other and hence chaos in the cloud due to inefficient system.

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