Sattrix Cloud Security
If you are in Banking, Financial, Oil & Gas, Retail, E-commerce, IT Industry or any other which requires Cloud Security services then have a look at this conversation of CIO and Cloud Security Expert of Sattrix.
CIO: My IT infrastructure investment is increasing day by day. How can I control it? My It resources are not enough to manage this infrastructure. I think I should adopt cloud technology which will help me to manage it. But how can I implement it as per my security standards and compliances?
Cloud Security Expert: Hi Sam, I got to know that you were thinking about moving your infrastructure to the cloud. Am I right? Did you consider the challenges and risks that you will face in cloud migration?
CIO: What challenges and risks?
Cloud Security Expert: Migrating IT workloads can be challenging when the migration includes critical data applications and infrastructure moving to the cloud. While to date, there is no single method for all sizes and types of cloud migration. You can significantly expose the chances of cloud security. When it comes to cloud return on investment looking at capital expenses, CAPEX to operational expenses, Opex uncovers the cloud is an incredible method to switch it spending to a pay-as-you-go model and reduce capex costs. Different skills are required to deploy, manage, and maintain the changeover from an on premises to a cloud environment and security is niche skill and Cloud migration.
If you are already facing issues, accessing skilled resources to run your existing environments, you likely will be challenged in finding the right skills necessary to plan and execute a successful cloud migration. The cloud migration would need a very in-depth assessment since engineers have to view how your performance will be affected when services are completely switched to the cloud. The incorrect assessment could lead to downtime and business disruption.
An organization that adopts cloud technologies without becoming fully informed that the risks involved expose itself to commercial, financial, technical, legal, and compliance risks.
However, with the right planning and execution, you can accelerate the migration of even complex on-premises workloads and use cases to the cloud. With a well-structured plan, the right resources, and the right oversight, you will be on your way to understanding the reasonable benefits that can be achieved with cloud migration service providers like Sattrix. We will help you with the in-depth assessment, which will prevent downtime and to make sure migration actually boosts performance. There is no common framework for assessing cloud service providers which complicate the process of selecting one that's right for your business.
For More Information: Cloud Security Services
Data is very crucial for everyone and mainly to the businesses.
Generally, the data is stored in the computers or storage devices.
Every day around 2.5 quintillion bytes of data is produced.
So, businesses are seeking the help of companies providing cloud application development services.
Why is cloud security solutions important?Nowadays every business is adopting cloud storage services because huge data can be stored in the cloud servers and the data stored can be easily retrieved any time using cloud backup solutions.
So, it has become very important to secure the data from the data breach, ransomware attacks etc.
Companies no longer need to spend huge of resources on creating and maintaining servers.
Here are some of the commonly known security threats:Data BreachA data breach happens when the data is lost from the servers and lands in hands of people with malicious intent and can potentially cause reputational and financial damage to the organization whose data is lost.
Financial institutions losing customer data is such a huge credibility concern apart from having significant legal liabilities.Mitigation Ways:Ensuring that the data stored on the cloud is encrypted and End to end Encryption of data in transit.Making sure that there are robust testing standards followed by cloud service providers.
Account HijackingKeeping an easy-to-guess password is one of the grave mistakes anyone can make, especially when they need to remember a lot of them.
When on the cloud the companies do not have much visibility of cloud infrastructure so they cannot respond to these threats effectively.Mitigations Ways:Using a password manager to manage all the passwords so that you only need to remember one strong password and use it as a gateway to use your cloud instance.Keeping a strong password for your cloud instance and regularly changing the password to avoid it reaching the hands of people who should not have access to it in any way.
One should be aware that the configuration settings of their cloud service instance so that is easily managed and is done keeping security in mind.
In this modern world, almost every organization is adopting cloud computing to various levels within their business to ensure that their approaches of Cloud Security can shield against the top threats.1.
Concern of IT Professionals91% are concerned about security 18% had experienced a cloud-related security issued in last 12 months 41% of the companies have a security architect 90% say at least half of their data on the cloud is sensitive 2.
Top Cloud Security ThreatsData Breaches Misconfigurations and inadequate change control lack of cloud security architecture and strategy Insufficient identity, credential, access and key management Account Hijacking Insecure interfaces and APIs Weak control plane Meta structure and applistructure failures Limited cloud usage visibility Abuse and nefarious use of cloud services For More information: Cloud Security Concerns Infographics
