The document discusses considerations for migrating applications to the cloud. It begins with an introduction of the speaker, Norm Barber, and his background in IT security. It then covers four premises related to cloud adoption: 1) Adoption is accelerating around platform as a service (PaaS), 2) Adopting DevOps practices is occurring concurrently, 3) IT risk management is evolving with the cloud, and 4) Moving applications to the cloud is an ongoing process rather than a one-time event. The document argues that technology is needed to help manage compliance as applications, cloud platforms, and risk management practices change over time. It provides an example case study of a client migrating applications to Azure PaaS and using tools