Imagine that you were looking to buy a laptop for many days, and you finally purchased it on an eCommerce site after seeing the ‘best deal for today’ with some massive discount.

The moment you finished your purchase, you saw a couple of emails and SMS arrived informing you about the confirmation, price, model number, order id, tracking id, and invoice.

Within twenty-four hours of the laptop reaching its destination, you also receive a text or email about the delivery, agent’s name, and number. And when delivered, you again receive an SMS about delivery success.

But every day, some new customers sign-up and make a purchase; even many existing customers buy their favorite items.

Although the above processes are always accessible when you look outside, what always keeps them in check is maintaining customer data for individuals without any mismatch. There are high chances of falling into it.

The actual scenario is:

It becomes the actual headache having tons of products in the warehouse; every product has its data. It applies the same to every customer’s data: name, multiple addresses, credit card/debit cards, registered mail id, phone numbers, and login credentials.

And on occasions, they give massive discounts and run mega sale events to drive maximum sales to attract new and existing customers based on their festivals or events.

Every eCommerce industry has tons of customers like you worldwide.

But why is the eCommerce industry the most successful business model today?

Did the above question ever surprise you? If not, the next one will.

Although data storage has been a significant concern, how do they manage to save massive databases flawlessly?

The secret sauce to their success is cloud computing. In this blog, you’ll learn about seven great hacks you should steal from cloud computing experts.

But before that, let’s dive into the core concepts of cloud computing.

What is Cloud Computing?

Cloud computing is the delivery of computing services – including servers, storage, databases, networking, software, analytics, and intelligence over the internet. And it renders faster innovation, flexible resources where you have to pay for services you opt-in. So it reduces the operational cost and helps you run your business efficiently by managing monolithic databases.

Types of Cloud Computing:

Private Cloud

The private cloud refers to cloud computing resources used solely for a single business or organization. This private cloud physically resides on the company’s data center. In contrast, some companies give authority to the third party to run their private cloud but using a private network, these services and infrastructures are maintained.

Public Cloud

Third-party cloud services providers own and operate the public clouds and deliver their computing resources such as storage and services over the internet. Within the public cloud, other supporting infrastructure is owned and managed by cloud providers.

Hybrid Cloud

Hybrid cloud computing is the superior cloud computing technique that combines public and private clouds and allows data and applications to be shared. The main objective of a hybrid cloud is it adds flexibility and deployment options to boost the existing infrastructure, security, and compliance.

Google clouds platforms, Microsoft Azure, and Hadoop are some of the best examples of cloud computing services.

How Secure is Cloud Computing?

It’s undeniable to know whether your data is safe or not when they are not under your control anymore, and most often, you may wonder how vulnerable these cloud servers are to cyber attackers.

But here is a thing, the data you save on the cloud is safer than that on your hard drives. Hackers indeed use multiple ways to hack data, but cloud computing is the next level technology where your data is more secure than your computers, where the risk is very high that it even hangs on your laptop.

If you’re still wondering, what makes cloud computing safer to trust? Firstly, the servers settle in a warehouse that nobody has access to. Secondly, these data are encrypted, and thirdly, it comes with regular security updates to be safe from cyber attackers. 

Cloud Computing Comes With Data Duplication Features

With technologies getting impregnable, now their marks are everywhere, even in cloud computing technologies.

Though the servers allow you to store more and more data, it also checks for the redundancies so that no space gets used for storing the same data – it increases the performance of data. It uses artificial intelligence to recognize duplicate data and ask you whether to keep them or not.

Five Great Hacks You Should Steal From Cloud Computing Experts To Run Your Business Flawlessly:

Multi-factor Authentication in the Enterprise

The username and password credentials are not sufficient for high security; they are just old-school methods. If you’re still using this, it’s time to upgrade and add extra layers of protection to the database like two-factor authentication, fingerprints, and other advanced facilities to tighten the security.

Use multi-factor authentications so that only authorized personnel can access the database and prevent all from accessing sensible data.

Tracking User Activity and Automate Trespass Detection

With the real-time monitor on the cloud system, you can categorize who the actual users are and who intend to breach data in any way. This way, it helps spot the irregularities and deviates from the standard usage patterns – like logging in from an unknown IP address.

You can block them to access, fix the cloud security before they do anything deafening.

Protect Against Departing Employees By Establishing a Comprehensive Off-boarding Process

Employees will indeed join and resign but make sure they can never access the confidential information vital for your business when they leave the organization. It’s the most often forgotten security check that creates blunders and tightens your security after the employee leaves the firm.

If you can’t manage this internally, never hesitate to outsource to someone else who is an expert in cloud computing; from setting up to implementations, all matters are hassle-free maintenance. 

Preventing Phishing By Creating An Ultra-backup Copy

There are high chances for phishing attacks; sometimes, your servers may go down for a long time till it revamps. It’s always in safe-hand if you have an ultra-backup of the existing data and use it when your primary server is under phishing or goes down; your business will run smoothly and without any significant losses.

Built-in Firewalls and Third-Party Security Testing 

Firewalls are like security agents; they protect your server from cyberattackers and notify you when they find suspicious activity or users. They protect your data from unauthorized users, keep the data safe behind the wall, and give many real challenges for hackers to slip malware or viruses into the database.

Hire third-party people from other security companies to regularly test servers and software to ensure your database is safe from hackers, cybercriminals, and deadly viruses. And you will be able to know about the latest security in the market and get it installed for yours too.

Final Words

Cloud computing is the future to safeguard massive datasets from cyber-attacks, virus attacks, and much more. According to recent research by social media today, physical devices are no longer the complete solutions anymore since 2.5 quintillions of data get generated every day and 1.7 MB of data every second.

And companies rely on these data to understand their customers better, sell them better products and add personalization whenever they reach them. That builds trust, and they share their confidential data: name, address, phone numbers, etc. 

This blog will give detailed information about cloud computing, how much they are secured, and five great hacks you should steal from cloud computing experts to safeguard your business’s confidential data.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ram Tavva

Senior Data Scientist and Alumnus of IIM- C (Indian Institute of Management – Kolkata) with over 25 years of professional experience Specialized in Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning.

PMP Certified, ITIL Expert certified APMG, PEOPLECERT and EXIN Accredited Trainer for all modules of ITIL till Expert Trained over 3000+ professionals across the globe Currently authoring a book on ITIL “ITIL MADE EASY”.

Conducted myriad Project management and ITIL Process consulting engagements in various organizations. Performed maturity assessment, gap analysis and Project management process definition and end to end implementation of Project management best practices.

Reference Blog:

https://www.ntiva.com/blog/6-tips-for-improving-cloud-computing-security
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/overview/what-is-cloud-computing/#cloud-computing-models
https://us.norton.com/internetsecurity-privacy-cloud-data-security.html
https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/how-much-data-is-generated-every-minute-infographic-1/525692/#:~:text=%22Over%202.5%20quintillion%20bytes%20of,for%20every%20person%20on%20earth.%22