Hybrid cloud poses new risks of cloud security

If 2013 was the year that companies start to adopt their first hybrid cloud methods, then it would be expected that from 2013 to now, hybrid cloud security is also taking center stage. According to studies as well as researches, the disappointing news is always that the level of cloud security inside the hybrid cloud has not been reached its peak yet.

That is the reason why using hybrid cloud is still leaving many challenges when it comes to cloud security. There is the problem of how to protect resources located in data center, how to protect the apps that are storage in the public cloud, how you can protect the virtualized underpinnings of both your public clouds and your private ones as well as how you can save your mobile devices which are linked to your cloud infrastructure. There are so many considerations to take into your mind.

But what a pity is that there is no solution which fits all your needs. Each organization needs a different level of satisfaction in terms of security as well as cloud security in particular. It may have one company that needs to keep a minimum suite of operations under lock and key inside the data center or a virtual private cloud space, while to some others what they actually need is to push batch processing or user processes to the public cloud.

According to the vice president of cloud security at cloud security vendor named TrendMicro, each hybrid cloud implementation is not the same so that securing them is always challenging at not an easy task at all. It is also claimed that the statement of ambient clouds as well as the ideas which customers now tend to move into a distributed cloud model more and more in which they can employ a lot of cloud vendors according to their use cases, the cost as well as the availability.

It is also highly noted that the real risks are which come from the data that operate through the distributed cloud.

1. Effective security strategies

One good news to know is that most businesses as well as organizations are adopting real practices in their current networks so that they can help themselves deal with problems of cloud security inside their own cloud.

For the head of the firm’s global security practice, in the cloud industry, there are more and more users adopting the technology before the problems around cloud security are fully solved.

With hybrid cloud, customers are acquiring a clear knowledge that the security demands waiting for them are promoting cloud service vendors to prepare more carefully to be able to bring satisfied answers on such topics as defining multi-tenant boundaries, FISMA compliance and other issues.

2. Industry instructions that can support

In 2011, the Cloud Security Alliance set up the CSA Security, Trust and Assurance Registry which includes all the security controls that are provided by a lot of cloud service vendors. This kind of registry is created with the purpose of helping users have approach to the security of cloud vendors that they have been taking advantage of or those that they are thinking of working with in the upcoming future. Until now, the registry is including approximately twenty cloud service vendors.

Last but not least, the hidden issue of this registry is that companies need to be mature enough to make full use of higher security offerings. It means that they need to have a clear knowledge of what is called virtual technology as well as cloud services control, which are really necessary for adopting cloud computing