Cloud Security Services
Cloud Security
As devices, data centres, business processes, and more are moved to the cloud, Cloud data security becomes increasingly important. Quality cloud data security is achieved through comprehensive security policies, an organisational culture of security, and cloud security solutions. Various types of solutions are available to help organisations mitigate risk and increase protection.
A primary category of cloud security solutions is Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) which monitor activity and enforce cloud access security policies. If you use Cloud services especially SaaS or storage, consider adding a CASB solution to your cybersecurity strategy.
A Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) solution is a cloud-based security policy enforcement point, placed between cloud service users (e.g. employees) and cloud service providers to enforce your company’s security policies.
CASB have User Entity Behaviour Analytical (UEBA) capabilities to detect insider threats and compromised accounts. CASBs scan network data that passes through them to identify potential threats or attempts to exfiltrate data from your Cloud solutions.
To mitigate the security risks associated with running a business via cloud applications, it is wise to invest in a Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB).
Cloud Computing Best Practices
- Implement strong access management policies that enforces least-privilege principles.
- Segment Network to prevents lateral movement so a minor compromise does not progress to a serious multi-system breach.
- Perform regular scans to identify vulnerabilities and misconfigurations. Perform penetration testing of your organisation’s network either on the cloud on on-premise to detect and remediate system weaknesses. Conduct security audits and testing to identify vulnerabilities and risks.
- Establish you and your cloud vendor a proactive patch management process and use automated tools for scanning and patching known vulnerabilities across your organisation’s infrastructure.
- Monitor user cloud activity and evaluate cloud usage culture
- Ensure password management best practice are adhered to.
- Set up a mechanism to alert when your organisation is out of compliance with applicable regulations so risks can be mitigated with prompt corrective action.
- Encrypt your data while in transit and at rest
- Ensure continuous security monitoring across your network and systems are enabled.
- Use a Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tool to centralise data from in-house and from cloud vendor security reports, so you always have the complete picture of your organisation’s security posture.
Our Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) solutions allow organisation management:
- Determine risk of unapproved cloud solutions
- Increase security of approved cloud applications with APIs that support Data Loss Prevention (DLP), User Entity Behaviour Analytical (UEBA), and Adaptive Access Control (AAC)
- Monitor usage and adoption of approved cloud services
- Manage managed and unmanaged device access to cloud services
- Gain visibility into compliance risk
- Add threat detection capabilities to your cloud services
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