In a world where almost everything is processed digitally, can you imagine all your company's data being stored locally, as it used to be? Today, losing the flexibility and mobility of cloud computing sounds absurd. But what about security vulnerabilities? Have you thought about it?
Cloud computing means replicating your company anywhere, with unlimited elasticity and scalability, but it also requires special care to protect sensitive information. By the way, what cloud security resources do you have in your company? Let's find out now if they're enough. Check it out!
The advantages of cloud computing
The term "cloud computing", as we know it today (a structure of servers connected to the internet to share data), was first used in 1997. However, it was in 2006, with Amazon Web Services, that cloud computing came to be seen as a valuable opportunity for companies of all sizes.
Then came the names linked to the public cloud (such as iCloud, Google Drive, Dropbox, SkyDrive, OneDrive, Box, Amazon Cloud Drive, etc.) and then countless private service providers.
The success of the cloud is linked to its convenience. Documents used to accumulate on hard drives like papers in file rooms. Dozens of applications required incessant investment in network/server infrastructure.
Not to mention the new omnichannel consumer's demand for the company to be available at any time and day. It was necessary to migrate to the cloud. The cloud brings space optimization, intelligence in data management, lower infrastructure costs and, of course, flexibility, mobility and permanent availability.
With a simple click from your smartphone, you can sign contracts in the airport lounge, access company systems from home and even assign employees to work in the office, but with their own devices(BYOD).
However, the point is: how do you guarantee security in the cloud? In addition to subscribing to these services, what protection resources does your company need in order to use external servers as an extension of its own computers?
The challenges of cloud security
Cloud computing brings countless opportunities for cost reduction, better organization and flexibility, but migrating to this environment imposes major challenges linked to protecting confidential data and adapting employees to use the platform safely. These include issues such as those you'll see below.
Risk and compliance management
The risks of the cloud involve possible compliance, privacy, availability, support and interoperability problems.
All these factors require the construction of a cloud security architecture that identifies each critical point, with monitoring strategies, indicator analysis and pre-programmed actions (based on Artificial Intelligence) for defense and protection.
Hence the importance of having the support of a partner with expertise in monitoring, sanitizing the environment and automatically correcting vulnerabilities.
Access management
What resources do service providers use to control authentication? Is there some kind of virtual token to reinforce the layers of security in the cloud platform's identity management?
The logical infrastructure linked to authorization (access control) and authentication (validation of authorship), as well as the control of different levels of access, must be checked carefully when analyzing security attributes in the cloud.
Stability
There's no point in having data online if it can never be accessed. Full availability must be guaranteed (which means working with a provider with multiple datacenters and load balancing, for example). SLAs (service level agreements) are fundamental for collecting results.
Data protection
The cloud environment needs to be protected by resources that ensure it is safe from tampering, copying or data loss, which necessarily involves triggers such as automatic backups and mapping access to each file (list of users, date, time, source IP, etc.).
In addition, there's no getting away from critical incident monitoring resources via Big Data (for pattern analysis).
Cloud security is key to business growth
In short, real cloud security involves additional layers of protection (two-factor authentication), a hierarchy of permissions, automatic backups, encryption (which prevents communication between terminal and server from being intercepted), etc.
Furthermore, in addition to the provider's structure, it is highly recommended that your company has a real Security Operations Center (SOC), with environment monitoring based on Artificial Intelligence.
It is this security ecosystem that will be able to identify the most common attacks on the cloud, such as intrusions through vulnerable interfaces or configuration errors.
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