Security in the cloud refers to the measures, protocols, and practices put in place to protect data, applications, infrastructure, and resources stored and accessed within cloud computing environments. It encompasses a range of security controls, policies, and strategies aimed at mitigating risks and ensuring confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information in cloud-based systems such as Data Protection, Identity and Access Management (IAM), Network Security, Compliance and Governance, Security Monitoring and Incident Response and Physical Security.