Tackling Cloud Security with Encryption

Grazed from Windows IT Pro. Author: Michael Otey.

When I talk with different businesses about their hurdles and reservations about moving to the cloud, the one thing that always comes up is security. Many businesses have trust issues with the cloud and they feel uneasy about the level of protection that their data and other computing resources may have in the cloud. While in a sense that may seem a bit overly paranoid because cloud vendors will all tell you that their data centers are far more secure than your data center ever will be, and that they have security specialists who rigorously follow all the security best practices.

Even so, in another sense from the personal perspective you can see that it really does require a big step of faith and a lot of trust in your cloud vendors to entrust them with your data. After all, you would be moving the data—which is essentially one of your organization’s most valuable assets—from your on-premise infrastructure which is 100 percent under your control to an off-premise hosting environment that is 100 percent not in your control. That requires trust…

Access Concerns

There are access concerns as well. To access on-premise data, users need to have access to your network. For many businesses, this requires a physical presence or at least a VPN connection. The ubiquitous nature of the cloud enables worldwide access given the appropriate authentication…

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