What is Cloud Security?
As data and applications move outside of the traditional network perimeter, security teams face a new set of challenges. These include securing the cloud, ensuring compliance, minimizing downtime and responding to breaches effectively.
Cloud Security is a combination of policies, technologies and processes that protect against malicious threats and ensure compliance across multiple environments. This includes a cloud network, applications, endpoints and mobile devices. It also includes monitoring, threat intelligence and incident response capabilities.
Encryption of both in-transit and at-rest data is essential to secure the cloud environment. This includes securing communications with the cloud via remote access and preventing unauthorized data transfer from employee devices or leaking through unsecure channels. Educating employees to avoid shadow IT and to use only secure connections is crucial as well.
Network security tools, such as firewalls, intrusion detection and prevention systems and virtual private networks, protect the cloud from unauthorized access, exploitation and malware attacks. They also help enforce best practices to secure network and device access, including password and biometric management.
Workload protection platforms protect IaaS, PaaS and serverless workloads from threats and vulnerabilities. They can verify access based on context and data, and protect against misconfigurations, privilege escalation and internal threat activity. They can also monitor and prioritize remediation of high-value assets and proactively safeguard data in a dynamic, highly-scalable and complex cloud environment.
Identify and prioritize remediation of critical vulnerabilities that can be exploited in runtime. This can include deploying security patches and updates in a timely manner and implementing a Zero Trust approach to protect your cloud infrastructure, applications and endpoints from exploitation by attackers.