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Shared responsibility model

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

nounCommon term

In software engineering, shared responsibility model means: The idea that security in the cloud is split: the provider protects the data centers, hardware and core services, and the customer protects their own data, settings and access.

In Turkish: paylaşılan sorumluluk modeli, ortak sorumluluk modeli

How it is used

AWS sums it up as security 'of' the cloud (provider) versus security 'in' the cloud (customer). The split depends on the service type: with IaaS the customer manages more than with SaaS. Often mentioned in audits and training.

Example sentences

  1. Under the shared responsibility model, a public bucket is our mistake, not the provider's.

  2. Every new engineer learns the shared responsibility model in their first security training.

Common collocations

  • under the shared responsibility model
  • security of the cloud
  • security in the cloud
  • cloud providerA company that owns large data centers and rents computing, storage, networking and other services to customers over the internet.
  • IAMShort for identity and access management: the system that controls who or what can sign in to a cloud account and what they are allowed to do there.
  • encryptionTurning data into an unreadable form that can only be turned back with the right key, so that people without the key cannot read it.
  • IaaSShort for infrastructure as a service: renting basic building blocks such as virtual machines, disks and networks, while you manage the operating system and everything above it.
  • managed serviceA cloud service where the provider handles setup, patching, backups and scaling, so you only use it and do not manage the servers underneath.

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