Shared Responsibility, Shared Security: Strengthening Cloud Resilience in the Philippines
Cloud computing now anchors the Philippines’ digital transformation, powering smarter banking, faster government services, and more connected businesses. But as cloud adoption accelerates, so does the question of accountability: who is truly responsible for keeping our data, applications, and systems secure? While cloud providers safeguard the underlying infrastructure, customers ultimately control their own data, configurations, and user access. This “shared responsibility” model is meant to balance trust and transparency, but in practice, it often creates gaps that attackers are quick to exploit. In a cloud-first Philippines, where information moves fluidly across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, human error remains the biggest vulnerability. The Local Threat Landscape The 2025 Fortinet–Cybersecurity Insiders State of Cloud Security Report highlights how confusion around shared responsibility remains one of the top risks for global organizations. Although providers secure the
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