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Scenario 7: InfoSec, based in Boston, MA, is a multinational corporation offering professional electronics, gaming, and entertainment products…
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The scenario describes a cloud service model where InfoSec accesses "cloud-based apps" through a web interface or an API. The cloud service provider is responsible for managing the applications, the platform, and the underlying infrastructure. InfoSec's responsibility is limited to managing its own data within these applications. This arrangement is the defining characteristic of the Software as a Service (SaaS) model, where a complete software solution is provided to the customer over the internet on a subscription basis, eliminating the need for the customer to manage the application or its infrastructure.
A. Infrastructure as a Service: This model provides only the fundamental computing resources (e.g., virtual servers, storage). The customer is responsible for deploying and managing the operating systems and applications, which is not what the scenario describes.
B. Platform as a Service: This model provides a platform for customers to develop, run, and manage their own applications. The scenario indicates InfoSec is using pre-built applications, not developing them.
1. Mell, P., & Grance, T. (2011). The NIST Definition of Cloud Computing (NIST Special Publication 800-145). National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Page 2, Section "Service Models": Defines Software as a Service (SaaS) as: "The capability provided to the consumer is to use the provider’s applications running on a cloud infrastructure. The applications are accessible from various client devices through either a thin client interface, such as a web browser (e.g., web-based email), or a program interface." This directly matches the scenario's description.
2. ISO/IEC 27017:2015, Information technology — Security techniques — Code of practice for information security controls based on ISO/IEC 27002 for cloud services.
Annex A (informative), "Cloud service customer and cloud service provider security control responsibilities": This annex implicitly defines the models by outlining responsibility splits. For SaaS, it shows the provider has the vast majority of responsibilities for infrastructure and platform security, while the customer's responsibility is focused on user access management and their data, which aligns with the scenario.
3. Armbrust, M., Fox, A., Griffith, R., Joseph, A. D., Katz, R., Konwinski, A., ... & Zaharia, M. (2009). Above the clouds: A Berkeley view of cloud computing (Technical Report No. UCB/EECS-2009-28). University of California, Berkeley.
Page 2, Section 2.1, "Classes of Utility Computing": Describes SaaS as "the applications themselves are provided as a service." It contrasts this with IaaS, where the customer builds their own applications on the provider's hardware. This academic source reinforces the distinction used in the analysis.
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