The cloud stores data in a remote location that is accessed via the internet so you can share your files and data, and has some built-in ways to protect your data:
- Back up your data to the cloud
- No need for external hard drives
- Remotely update and sync your files
- Share your files easily
- Remote work made easy
- Keep your files encrypted
Cloud Security
The cloud provider’s job isn’t just to house the data of companies, it’s to also ensure the cloud users how safe it is. When developing the cloud, they focused on: user and device authentication, data and resource access control, and data privacy protection.
To achieve optimum security, they start with secure access control, zero-trust network, change management, web application firewall, data protection, and continuous monitoring.
6 Pillars of Cloud Security
- Secure Access Control: secure Identity Access Management (IAM) protocol; access to what they need and that’s all
- Zero-Trust Network Security Controls: separating the data from what needs to be protected and what doesn’t
- Change Management: management has control over governance and compliance when there is a request; can catch any suspicious activity
- Web Application Firewall: added protection to add a blockade to breachers à serves as an indicator of suspicious behavior
- Data Protection: strongly encourage encrypting files and have a plan of what to do if there is suspicious activity and breach
- Continuous Monitoring: comparing to older logs and auditing
Let’s Get in the Mind of the Hackers
The object of the game is you must get money or something that will lead to the money like credit card information, social security, someone’s identification, etc. Before, they relied on pickpocketing and scamming scenarios to get quick cash. With everything becoming digital, added tactics like phishing emails and malware to get your information. Two common events happen: they get access to the data and expose known data that isn’t fictionalized, or they expose data that you didn’t know residing in the cloud that wasn’t fictionalized.
What You Can Do
No matter what you do to your cloud security process, hackers are going to try to get their paycheck. Here are things we can do to add to the existing security protocol:
- Move sensitive data off the cloud
- Encrypt sensitive data
- Change your passwords
- Require 2-factor authentication/multifactor authentication
- Invest in firewalls on email servers
- Educate yourself and the company to make sure
- Know what information is on the cloud
How Can C² Discover Help?
The C² Data Privacy Platform is your all-in-one solution for managing and securing data across enterprise cloud and hybrid environments. It handles data management, discovery, and security with ease.
Key Features:
C² Manage: Gain full visibility into all data regions within your AWS account, laying the foundation for comprehensive data discovery by answering the crucial question: “Where is my data stored?” Turn on and off the unnecessary accounts to reduce AWS costs.
C² Discover: Leverage cutting-edge data discovery techniques, including machine learning, AI, and contextual knowledge, to accurately analyze and identify sensitive data across various sources in various data types, structured, unstructured, and semi-structured. C² Discover provides a unified view of data locations, highlights areas with high concentrations of sensitive information, and assigns the risk scores based on what types and how much sensitive data was found.
C² Secure: Protect your discovered data with expert recommendations on encryption, masking, synthesis, and redaction. With over 21 years of experience serving Fortune 500 clients, C² Secure ensures your sensitive data is effectively safeguarded.
