Pets vs cattle: How to get cloud and DevOps security right

ITProPortal | September 25, 2020

A look at security, both on-premise and in the cloud.

By Dr. Mike Lloyd

In a world as nebulous as cloud computing and DevOps, analogies can sometimes help us to think more clearly. The idea of “pets versus cattle” was first used nearly a decade ago to help delineate the difference between traditional on-premises IT and the cloud, and has become a firm favorite in the DevOps community ever since. But there are also lessons here for cybersecurity teams, as long as they’re able to see through the limits of the analogy and understand where the main challenges are.