Join Lois Houston and Nikita Abraham, along with special guests Nancy Kramer and Betina Tagle from Oracle’s corporate security organization, as they discuss the steps you can take to evaluate your organization’s security, privacy, and compliance requirements using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. They also talk about the resources that are available to help you do so.   Oracle MyLearn: https://mylearn.oracle.com/ Oracle University Learning Community: https://education.oracle.com/ou-community Subscribe to Security Updates: https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/ Oracle Trust Center: https://www.oracle.com/trust/ OCI CAIQ: https://www.oracle.com/corporate/security-practices/cloud  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/oracle-university/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Oracle_Edu   Special thanks to Arijit Ghosh, David Wright, and the OU Studio Team for helping us create this episode.   --------------------------------------------------------   Episode Transcript:  00;00;00;00 - 00;00;38;16 Welcome to the Oracle University Podcast, the first stop on your cloud journey. During this series of informative podcasts, we’ll bring you foundational training on the most popular Oracle technologies. Let's get started. Hello and welcome to the Oracle University Podcast. I'm Nikita Abraham, Principal Technical Editor with Oracle University, and with me is Lois Houston, Director of Product Innovation and Go to Market Programs.   00;00;38;20 - 00;01;01;13 Hi there. In today's special episode, we're going to talk about all the steps you can take to evaluate your organization's security, privacy, and compliance requirements using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. We'll also explore some of the resources that are available to help you do so. And to tell us all about it, we're joined by two guests from Oracle's corporate security organization.   00;01;01;16 - 00;01;32;25 Nancy Kramer is a Senior Director in Global Information Security. She has 20 years of experience in risk management, security, privacy, and compliance audits involving complex business processes and IT systems. She also provides thought leadership, including engagement with industry organizations. Dr. Betina Tagle is also with Global Information Security. She has over 20 years of experience with cybersecurity and compliance in both the private and public sector.   00;01;32;27 - 00;01;52;26 Thank you so much, Nancy and Betina, for being with us today. Yes, this is such an important topic to learn more about. I'm really interested in what you have to share with us. Thank you so much for having us. We are delighted to help our customers learn more about how to securely reap the benefits of cloud. Thanks for this opportunity, Niki and Lois.   00;01;52;28 - 00;02;25;26 As organizations adopt cloud services, they're seeking guidance on evaluating cloud service providers. Our goal is to offer helpful insights on the approach. Let's start with setting some context. What kind of challenges do organizations face in their cloud adoption journey? Organizations continue to migrate business-critical applications and workloads to the cloud. The benefits are compelling. Leveraging the cloud lets organizations focus on their core mission and minimize capital expenditure.   00;02;25;29 - 00;03;08;09 With cloud services, organizations still own their data while leveraging the expertise, economy of scale, technical flexibility, and scalability offered by their cloud providers. When organizations are considering their cloud strategy, they need to consider their security, privacy, and compliance objectives from internal and external sources, compiling their requirements for the cloud service providers. For example, external requirements may include applicable laws and regulations based on the organization's location, their customer location, industry, or the type of data they process.   00;03;08;12 - 00;03;50;02 Organizations would benefit from a thorough analysis of the regulatory environment by their lega