Cloud Computing: Data Encryption – Your Customers Need It
October 5, 2016
Grazed from MSPMentor. Author: Charles Cooper.
When Target suffered a massive data breach in late 2013, hackers gained access to the company’s network and filched valuable credit and debit card information belonging to millions of the retailer’s customers. Intruders had burrowed their way into the corporate network by compromising the security of a third-party vendor working with Target – in this case an HVAC refrigeration contractor called Fazio Mechanical Services, which monitored the chain’s climate systems.
The spectacular circumstances surrounding the breach attracted obvious notoriety. But the incident also stoked wider concern among cloud administrators about data security, especially pertaining to situations in which third parties also have access to corporate networks. To be sure, companies can always adopt tactical approaches tailored to their individual situations…
In the case of the Target breach, for example, one idea would have been to construct an entirely separate network since the refrigeration specialist third party only needed to see the retailer’s HVAC nodes. That would have protected the company’s data even when the hackers were able to wend their way into the system…
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