What Is Cloud Security?
As companies store more data in the cloud, the worry is that hackers can break into a provider’s servers and steal the data. The big providers, like Amazon, Google and Microsoft, have invested in robust security measures to prevent this from happening. However, it’s still possible that their servers could fail. This would be bad for many reasons, including losing photos, videos and reports that have been saved in the cloud.
This is why it’s important to partner with vendors that design security with the user experience in mind. Frictionless security can help reduce the chances of employees putting workarounds in place and bypassing builtin security controls. It’s also important to choose a vendor that encrypts data in transit so hackers can’t get their hands on it.
Cloud Security is a broad category that covers all the solutions, services and protocols necessary to protect cloud environments and applications, including public, private and hybrid cloud environments. It involves protections at a compute, network and identity level. This includes things like micro-segmentation to create protection measures dedicated to the live flow of traffic, securing both the cloud environment and the users of it. It also encompasses identity and access management (IAM), which is the process of ensuring that only authorized users can access cloud environments and applications. This includes establishing best practices for password management, requiring least privilege and auditing privileged access. It also includes disaster recovery solutions, which include the tools, services and protocols necessary to recover from a significant system outage.