Cloud computing is in a steady state of innovation and holds a lot of promise for the future. However, just like a coin has two sides to it, cloud computing needs to be evaluated on its pros and cons.
There are IT firms that have cherished and adopted the cloud, while few still stick to the same traditional in house mode of operations. When they were queried as what stops them to reach for the “cloud”, 82% of the respondents mentioned their concern about Cloud Security. Today, data is the lifeblood of businesses and it needs to be safe and secure. This blog post aims to cover specifically, FIVE RISKS that needs to be taken into account, when moving to the cloud.
Denial of Service attacks
Denial of service attacks contributes about 76% of all the security breaches happening in cloud. Intruders generate multiple fake requests to make the service unavailable for use. Yahoos, eBay, CNN were few of the recent victims of this type of attack.
If you check my previous post, this will give you a quick insight about similar scenarios.
Location of Data
Location of data cannot be nailed down. Each chunk of data is like a drop in the ocean of the cloud. There are practical difficulties in locating the data as cloud servers are replicated and distributed, sometimes across the globe. This is makes it difficult to identify backup location and status in case of any disaster.
Control of Data
When services are hosted off site, who controls the data? Third party service provider come into the picture here and we are cornered into using the methods formulated by the service provider. So a trusted and reliable service provider needs to be chosen as a partner.
Data Lock In
Say you are not happy with one of the service provider and wish to switch to another, there are possibilities that the data formats may mismatch with that residing in the new service provider. The reason for this is that Cloud providers don’t follow any standard for data format storage, resulting in complex and expensive migrations
Jurisdictional Compliance
For cloud data centers located across various geographical locations, we need to verify that the cloud provider abides by the necessary jurisdictional compliance stipulations.
Considering the above listed pitfalls, we in Vembu, have designed a state of art technology that provides for data transparency with visibility and enables data access and control with ease to handle Cloud security breaches thus abiding by necessary compliance regulations.
