2021 Cyber and Technology Risk Management Forum

Audit and Security for Cloud-Based Services

Platform Overview § Platform as a Service (PaaS) is a way to rent hardware, operating systems, storage and network capacity over the Internet. The service delivery model allows the customer to rent virtualized servers and associated services for running existing applications or developing and testing new ones. (Techtarget.com) § Let internal IT focus on the business (applications). § Let service provider handle the “commodity work”.

§ Smallest market when compared to IaaS and SaaS (Gartner)

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Application PaaS § Application platform as a service (aPaaS) is a form of PaaS that provides a platform to support application development, deployment and execution in the cloud. It is a suite of cloud services designed to meet the prevailing application design requirements of the time, and includes mobile, cloud, the Internet of Things (IoT) and big data analytics innovations.

Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Application Platform as a Service, Worldwide, March 2015

§ APaaS is often used by tech companies

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