Augmentation of SECaaS model with eCISO in cloud-based security services: A Comprehensive study

Abstract

In today’s competitive world and the time of business discontinuity and falling economies due to many reasons, enterprises worldwide are trying to process business data securely and minimize IT systems’ operational cost with technologies in cloud computing. With the benefit of cost-efficiency in cloud services, there are some concerns regarding IT security, IT governance, and compliance, which plays a vital role in the business as usual. Security as a service model is a cloud-based security service model to provide secure environments, mediums, and systems to enterprises. In this paper, we are attempting to introduce a new service model to cloud-based security platform and perform a comprehensive study with augmenting security as a service (SECaaS) model with eCISO services for better governance of risks and decision making related to IT security to optimize the service model to help out CEOs and CIOs to ensure the security of their IT systems and data.