Hybrid Cloud Computing for Smiths Security: Benefits, Risks, and Controls

This report recommends to Smiths Security to adopt the hybrid cloud technology because of the numerous benefits that the business will gain by implementing this technology. It discusses the various cloud architecture that can be used and their benefits, risks associated with hybrid cloud strategies, information security controls that the company can adopt to secure Hybrid cloud, recommend the various elements that should be included in the business continuity plan, discuss the various requirements that should be considered when conducting resource management, remote server administration, and SLA management, and the various steps that should be taken when migrating the services to the Amazon AWS hybrid cloud.