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title: "Areas of responsibility"
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description: "How responsibility is distributed between Selectel and the customer"
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# Areas of responsibility

Ensuring security in Selectel infrastructure is a shared responsibility between Selectel and the customer. Selectel secures the infrastructure on which the products and services run, and the customer secures the infrastructure deployed using Selectel products and services. This model helps to reduce the load on the customer, because Selectel takes on the task of securing the physical infrastructure and software components on which the products and services run. The boundaries of the areas of responsibility depend on the product or service:

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        <th>Colocation</th><th>Dedicated Servers</th><th>Cloud servers and VMware-based cloud</th><th>Managed Kubernetes, Container registry (CRaaS)</th><th>S3, Managed Databases</th><th>Object Storage</th><th>Control Panel</th>
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        <th>Data security and access control</th><td>Client</td><td>Client</td><td>Client</td><td>Client</td><td>Client</td><td>Client</td><td>Client</td>
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        <th>Application software security</th><td>Client</td><td>Client</td><td>Client</td><td>Client</td><td>Selectel</td><td>Selectel</td><td>Selectel</td>
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        <th>Network security of customer infrastructure</th><td>Client</td><td>Client</td><td>Client</td><td>Client</td><td>Selectel</td><td>Selectel</td><td>Selectel</td>
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        <th>Operating system security</th><td>Client</td><td>Client</td><td>Client</td><td>Selectel</td><td>Selectel</td><td>Selectel</td><td>Selectel</td>
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        <th>Virtualization platform and orchestration security</th><td>Client</td><td>Client</td><td>Selectel</td><td>Selectel</td><td>Selectel</td><td>Selectel</td><td>Selectel</td>
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        <th>Network security of service infrastructure</th><td>Client</td><td>Selectel</td><td>Selectel</td><td>Selectel</td><td>Selectel</td><td>Selectel</td><td>Selectel</td>
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        <th>Hardware security</th><td>Client</td><td>Selectel</td><td>Selectel</td><td>Selectel</td><td>Selectel</td><td>Selectel</td><td>Selectel</td>
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        <th>Physical security</th><td>Selectel</td><td>Selectel</td><td>Selectel</td><td>Selectel</td><td>Selectel</td><td>Selectel</td><td>Selectel</td>
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