• Atul Gupta
• May 21, 2024
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In the current world that is highly digitized the cloud computing systems can be considered as a crucial business infrastructure for the companies of any dimensions. But the cloud environments offer much more convenience and are more scalable, and thus potential security breaches are associated with them. This is the current understanding by Essential InfoSec that is a leading company in providing cybersecurity.

Data Encryption and Access Management:

• Security is an important concern in the use of the cloud and data encryption is at the basis of this security. It is also important to encrypt any stored personal information as well as communications between the application and the server.
• Strategic security includes the use of different access management techniques like multi-factor authentication or role-based access control to protect your cloud environment.

Network Security and Monitoring:

• Services and virtual networks for cloud environments are frequently connected with or dependent on each other. These networks have to be made secure through the firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and virtual private networks (VPNs).
• Develop and maintain a security posture for your cloud environment to constantly search for threats and signs of an attack to timely respond and mitigate it.

Compliance and Regulatory Requirements:

• Various jurisdictions have additional legal mandates with regard to managing personal information.
• Check that your cloud environment complies with applicable laws as well as regulations like GDPR, HIPAA and PCI DSS and failure to do that may lead to penalties and loss of customers.

Incident Response and Business Continuity: 

Adequately train on how to recognize and report security breach cases to ensure that the organization responds to security incidents effectively and efficiently. 

• Follow business continuity: Business continuity is the strategy to provide access to data and systems.
• Cloud Provider Security:

Securing data on cloud is a shared responsibility and cloud providers provide security features but it is crucial to know how to use them.

Ensure your organization is constantly updated on the security updates and recommendations provided by the cloud providers to improve the security position.

The five strategies described above are some of the recommended ways on how to make cloud computing security more effective Avoid engaging in these practices and seek help from Essential InfoSec to gain more on what is needed to make security in cloud computing more effective.