A company is migrating its database containing sensitive customer information to a public cloud using an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) model. According to the typical cloud shared responsibility model, which party is primarily responsible for ensuring the sensitive data within the database is encrypted?
The customer is responsible for configuring encryption for their data.
The responsibility is equally shared, with both parties co-managing the encryption keys.
The cloud provider is responsible for encrypting all customer data by default.
A third-party auditor is responsible for implementing encryption controls.
This statement is correct. In the cloud shared responsibility model, particularly for IaaS, the customer retains responsibility for securing their own data. This includes classifying the data, deciding what to encrypt, and managing the encryption configurations and keys. While the cloud provider is responsible for the security of the cloud (the physical infrastructure), the customer is responsible for security in the cloud, which encompasses their data, applications, and guest operating systems. The provider offers encryption tools, but the customer must choose to implement and manage them for their data.
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