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HELLO!I am Anirban Banerjee.I am the Founder and CEO of Onion ID.

Cloud Services: Benefits and

Costs

The hidden costs of Access Management

Controlling Cloud Service

costs

IT Infrastructure

Today

Laptops

In house server

s

Mobile device

s

Cloud Server

s

The Landscape is Changing

Wait for it – Cloud Services!

Why is the Cloud so Popular?

All these benefits are not without cost!

▹ Shift in Capex to OpexCost savings – 25% on avg.

▹ Employee MobilityEasy access – 49% on avg.

▹ Scaling is easierMore efficient – 55% on avg.

▹ Time savingsMore time to innovate – 31% on avg

▹ Choice – no traditional vendor lock in

Costs in the Cloud

▸ Plan▹ 10- year cost of ownership

▸ Sometimes unpredictable

▸ What to Track▹ Instances, Accounts, Licenses

▸ How to Track▹ Custom tools, Vendor tools, 3rd party

Estimating Cloud Costs

▸ Not just dollars▹ Time to manage accounts/servers▹ Vendor downtime

▸ Hidden costs▹ Employee training costs▹ Service desk requests▹ Wastage of unused accounts/servers

▸ Who is spending▹ Visibility is very poor

What about Asset Management?

Asset Management:

Obvious Costs

▸ Inventory▹ How many accounts, servers▹ How many applications

▸ Audit▹ Regular process, just like

compliance▹ Set up controls

▸ Alert▹ Knowing is half the battle▹ AWS Cloudtrail▹ Domo▹ Zapier

▸ Managing users▹ Account setup is not easy▹ Multiuser support is very poor

▸ Downtime▹ 99.95% means 21.6 mins of downtime/mo▹ 99.99% means 4.32 mins of downtime/mo

▸ Resetting passwords▹ 18.5 Million results in a generic search▹ Highest ticket count for any Hoster

▸ Onboarding users and training▹ Users may need 11 weeks to get comfortable

Asset Management:Hidden Costs

Access to Cloud Assets comes with hidden costs!

Access Management

•Access to vendor portal needs security

•Keep track of who has access

Increased Attack Surface

•3 hours per server per month

•1 hour per employee on/off boarding

Time Sink

•Business risk•Compliance• Incomplete Audits

Why is this important

Help Your Devops & IT

▸ Easy user setup▹ Set up standardized policy – Email based,

chain of command▹ Standardized format – use a directory

service

▸ Easy sharing▹ Wiki entry for how to share access

▸ Easy privilege management

▹ No default grants, have to balance automation and security

▸ Easy tracking▹ Decide what to track, when, what format

▸ Splunk, Sumo Login, JSON, CSV

▹ Document why this is important▹ Time savings, security, visibility

Reports in real time

Tight handle on

costs

Identify inefficienci

esMore

security

Compliance

Other Benefits

THANK YOU!Any questions?You can find more about us at:Onion ID – Infrastructure Access Securitywww.onionid.com , sales@onionid.comTel: +1-951 231 0557