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## Establishing a Cloud Governance Strategy 

Speak to your cloud provider regarding what data controls it provides. In addition, develop and publish a consistent set of rules and policies regarding the creation, capture, management, transmission, storage, and deletion of confidential and business- critical data. Make sure that your provider adheres to data location requirements dictated by certain governments. Data is the lifeblood of your organization, so you don’t want it to be compromised in any way. Not only do you want to save your data but also restore that data to ensure that no data is lost. 

Hand in hand with a security strategy needs to be a governance strategy — a way to ensure accountability by all parties involved in the cloud deployment. Basically, governance is about applying policies related to using services. Governance incorporates the organizing principles and rules that determine how an organization should behave when leveraging cloud services. These policies determine who is accountable for what actions. Cloud governance is a shared responsibility between the users of cloud services and the cloud provider. Understanding the boundaries of responsibilities and defining an appropriate governance strategy for your company requires careful balance. 

## Governance issues in the cloud 

Of course, cloud governance can be tricky. IT governance is hard enough. Cloud governance requires governing your own infrastructure as well as infrastructure you don’t totally control. A successful governance strategy in a cloud world requires a negotiated agreement between you and your cloud providers(s). Generally, several goals are involved in cloud governance, including risk and monitoring performance. Your governance strategy needs to be supported in two ways: 

✓ Understanding the compliance and risk measures the business must follow:  What does your business require to meet IT, corporate, industry, and government 

