Question

1. Describe logical and physical boundaries within cloud environments, including the organizational boundary (in relation to cloud consumers and cloud providers) and the trust boundary (as it pertains to cloud consumers and cloud providers). Explain also the relationship between organizational boundaries and trust boundaries.

Answer 1

When an organization assumes the role of cloud consumer to access cloud-based IT resources, it needs to extend its trust beyond the physical boundary of the organization to include parts of the cloud environment.

A trust boundary is a logical perimeter that typically spans beyond physical boundaries to represent the extent to which IT resources are trusted. When analyzing cloud environments, the trust boundary is most frequently associated with the trust issued by the organization acting as the cloud consumer.

Organizational Boundary
An organizational boundary represents the physical perimeter that surrounds a set of IT resources that are owned and governed by an organization. The organizational boundary does not represent the boundary of an actual organization, only an organizational set of IT assets and IT resources. Similarly, clouds have an organizational boundary