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Security Considerations for Private vs. Public Clouds
Security Considerations for Private vs. Public Clouds

Security Considerations for Private vs. Public Clouds

Release Date: 06/15/2015

The Cloud Security Alliance teamed up with Palo Alto Networks to produce this whitepaper. A public cloud deployment occurs when a cloud’s entire infrastructure is owned, operated and physically housed by an independent Cloud Service Provider. A private cloud deployment consists of a cloud’s entire infrastructure owned, operated and physically housed by the tenant business itself, generally managed by its own IT infrastructure organization.

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