Cloud Security for Startups

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As a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) startup, it’s important to build solid security foundations in order to gain and maintain customers’ trust. SaaS startups should view security as an essential foundation of their company, as well as a competitive advantage that influences potential customers. In this document, we provide an outline of cloud security best practices that SaaS organizations should follow, including guidelines for application security, platform security, and security management, and provide some quick tips along the way. This document provides a security roadmap that you can follow as your company progresses through its cloud journey. We also provide a list of which controls should be implemented during each phase of a startup’s growth.

All together, these guidelines should help SaaS startups meet the most important security and privacy requirements presented by customers considering new services and products.

Key Takeaways: Besides providing cloud security recommendations, this document covers the following specific areas of security (and more):

Who It’s For: This document is designed for founders, CTOs, product managers, and architects of cloud-based startups that are developing on public Infrastructure-as-a-Service/Platform-as-a-Service (IaaS/PaaS).