Necessary steps to secure your hybrid cloud

Today, the hybrid cloud is on its way of increasing more and more popularity at a fast pace than ever in comparison with ether private or public clouds. The private cloud could be rather more expensive when it comes to such issues as acquiring the hardware as well as the time and effort it needs to manage and maintain the data. It may be true that the public cloud is to some extent a little bit cheaper choice and easier to adopt, yet it may be followed by such problems in terms of security and regulations as well. All the reasons above have motivated entrepreneurs to change their consideration into the hybrid cloud service, which can help you store your most sensitive data under your own private cloud and also make use of cheap public cloud for less important data.  This article will outline some useful tips for you to secure your hybrid cloud.

1. Be alert that where your data is stored

As you may have known, the hybrid cloud will let you keep your most sensitive data locally under a private cloud, while also help you store less sensitive data under a public cloud for you to save your expenses.

Before you think of securing your hybrid cloud environment, you need to learn that not all data is created to be the same. More precisely, some data is regulated while others may be guarded as it includes important information. At first it is better for you to know which kind of data according to its kind as well as your cloud storage strategy.

If you want to make sure the highest levels of cloud security within your public cloud environment, you had better seek for solutions which provide you with full encryption as well as possible resource isolation whether you are at rest or at work so that you can feel safe because your data is made sure not to be stored on the same servers with other companies. More conveniently, you are able to keep as much your data as you want in the public cloud which costs you lower price while still being able to leverage the private cloud for the documents which need protecting inside your firewall.

2. Set up in redundancy

Secondly, there are two kinds of hardware, which are the kind that has failed and the kind that will finally fail. You should understand that both your public as well as private cloud environments must include hardware as well as data redundancies in case of any hardware failure. It means that even there is a disaster occurring to your cloud, your data can not be lost.

Even though some of the redundancy can be reached through a backup plan or frequent backup plans, those plans are sometimes incomplete as well as do not contain such necessities as archived or less-accessed data, system configurations or security settings as well as many others. You had better make sure that redundancies are presented for all of your data and your duplications of data. You responsibility is to make sure that there will be no single point of failure that can lead you to data loss.

3. Consider the compliance and smart policies

Regulatory compliance is necessary when you start adopting a hybrid cloud. But more than compliance, you need to learn that in addition to the top layers of cloud security, you should add more extra layers for your priorities as well as your goals of entrepreneur and the IT department such as redundancies, backups and other aspects of vulnerability as well.