Success with public cloud computing has interesting similarities to real-time strategy games.

In those games, the key is balancing the use of resources for defense against offence. Similarly, taking advantage of public cloud means balancing rapid build-out, while not forgetting to defend your resources. 

This paper explores that idea, and describes how resource-efficient security that supports an organization’s part of the shared security model of most public clouds must address more than performance characteristics:

• billing,
• management time,
• set-up time,
• the need for additional management instances. If not properly addressed, can burden projects being moved to, or created on, public cloud.