Tips to secure your cloud

It is clear that drawing a good plan for secure your cloud may be not easy at all due to various reasons. This is to some extent sophisticated when it comes to the kind of cloud we choose to adopt as well as the class of data and computing that we assign to those cloud layers. In general, you can set up a comprehensive cloud security solution; nevertheless, you should know that the challenge lies in the details and the access to various use methods is always on demand.

First and foremost, you can look through some myths and false understanding of cloud users. They suppose that the cloud is very secure to store data and the large cloud service vendors keep on maintaining a serious management after having lost a lot of customers because of security. But you had better learn that even the best provider is still threatened by hackers, commercial robbers and even spies from government.

You yourself should not always assume that cloud service providers’ storage space is secure. If you see a cloud service provider takes advantage of encryption based on drive, you must ignore working with them as encrypting should be done with your own key suite.

What is more, when it comes to cloud security, you may think of maintaining an integrity under being attacked. However, it is not effective at all to have only one duplicate of your document. As a result, you should provide yourself with a protection system for this case, otherwise you will be knocked down in the play.

Another challenge of cloud security is governance. It is true that there are a lot of solutions while you are storing your data as well as analyzing automatically and reporting events, yet the development of Software as a Service leads us to wondering where our data is truly located and whether it is complied with good standards of security or not.

Below are some tips to help you over the challenges of cloud security that you can adopt now or never.

1. Be highly responsible for security

As having mentioned above, many users suppose that large public cloud vendors are the most secure locations to store your data. But nothing is sure because attackers now reach beyond their limitations and they have already had their own ways to break into servers of even big cloud service providers.

Any cloud could be threatened by attacks such as human error, viruses as well as other malware and even password guessing, which is considered to be the most unlucky problem. Furthermore, generally your public versus your private cloud adoptions at first have a high level of risky attack in comparison with a dedicated server deployment. You ought not to think that your cloud service vendor will be responsible for all the attacks. While you are in the cloud storage space, you need to focus entirely on security as well as detecting any attacks occurring.

Another problem to consider is the volatility of cloud deployments. Keeping control over this issue demands on an automatic security control as well as software management and detects if there are any threats from outside or strange approach to your data, in addition to many of other problems.

2. Encryption

The first issue in securing your data is always preventing an outsider to break into your cloud with the aim of reading, adjusting and even deleting all your data. In this case, the most effective way is encrypting key data and then you need to control the keys on your own, with your own password and you must not reveal the password to anyone as well.