In today’s data-driven world, security threats are no longer limited to top-tier Fortune 100 companies. Security breaches are a growing threat to companies of all sizes, ranging from SMBs to global conglomerates — and it’s every employee’s responsibility to help stop them.

As organizations make the digital transformation, it’s essential for them to secure productivity, collaboration, and enterprise data. Cloud security is especially relevant for mobile devices in light of the popularity of BYOD (bring your own device). As more of your customers’ employees access company data from their own devices, the greater the opportunity to provide security solutions.

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Access Controls

At this point in our Cloud Security Series, we have discussed many resources you can use to keep your data secure. Now let’s discuss access controls and authenticating proper access to those new resources including files, folders, databases and web applications.

Next on our cloud security series, we will discuss the steps you can take to secure  your storage resources since data is the most valuable asset in the cloud environment. First, I recommend implementing resource controls and ensuring that only the right resources have access to the secured information. Also, consider implementing a data classification practice where data is sorted into certain categories to help define placement, access, backup, recovery and security policies. Additionally, consider implementing drive encryption, so if someone gains access to your data the information remains secured.

Next on our cloud security series, we’ll discuss ways to harden a new cloud system and ensure it’s configured in a manner that reduces threats and attacks from both internal and external sources. While the precise settings and measures for hardening your cloud system will differ from solution to solution, the fundamental processes required are similar, regardless of the technologies being hardened. A few of these essential hardening methods are:

We begin part two of our cloud security series by discussing layered security. To safeguard new cloud services from outside dangers in today’s market, cloud design often includes multiple layers or networks to ensure that secured resources are protected.

This is part one of a weekly blog series to discuss the extremely important topic of cloud security and how the three primary service models in cloud computing,  Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), have differing security strategies—which you should become familiar with to secure and protect your customers’ cloud environments.

It seems like everyone is offering cloud services of every flavor these days, with new players joining the market every day. Over the past 10 years, we’ve seen cloud-based storage, email migration; remote monitoring, online productivity, and cloud security take center stage. Managed Service Providers (MSPs) are trusted with securing organizations’ networks. However, many do not fully understand their own customers' priorities when it comes to security.