Cloud Security forward footsteps lag

Cloud computing is no longer spring, and now it has steadily entered the home of ordinary people. In fact, any company that has not yet dabbled in cloud computing has reason to seriously consider the new technology. The positive elements of cloud computing are obvious: flexibility, on-demand access to advantageous resources (used only at the necessary time and place), often offer attractive low-cost unit cost and complexity cuts.

But one big obstacle to keeping data in the cloud is our concern about security. The "Prism Gate" incident that had been a while ago sounded a wake-up call, and we realised that the NSA was getting access to the big Web sites frantically capturing user data-which added to our fears and concerns about the disruption of data privacy in the cloud. According to research firm Forrester's estimates, the Prism gate incident to the cloud computing industry caused by the hidden loss may be as high as 180 billion of dollars.

Aside from the prism door, the advance of cloud security does seem to lag behind the rapid development of cloud functions. Although there are many legal and industry standards for the maintenance of information, cloud computing reliability, uptime and disaster recovery measures have been significantly improved, but we still failed to monitor, audit and corporate governance mechanisms and other areas of the ideal solution. For example, security monitoring is much less mature than operational performance monitoring.

The lack of visibility is seen as the main resistance of most managers to cloud computing, as they are unable to detect the current state of operation in time, so they cannot respond in a timely manner to ensure that work is done properly. We can also understand how many administrators distrust the data security monitoring mechanism in the cloud environment. After all, compared with traditional internal data storage systems, the hardware and network used by cloud computing are entirely controlled by Third-party service providers. It's not too good to put your vitals in the hands of others.

Despite these negative factors, we still feel a strong incentive for the spread of cloud computing technology-something that we seem to have to introduce into our business environment in some way. The only way to meet the demands of customers, employees, and partners for personal experience and real-time information access is through cloud services, given the continued high volume of data, user and device access in the current era.

The first step is to decide which type of cloud environment is best suited to your organization's security requirements. To ensure that data is properly protected in a cloud environment, organizations need to know what data will be based on the cloud, how to monitor the flow of data, what vulnerabilities exist, and how to prove that controls are sufficient to meet regulatory responsibilities.

As cloud computing develops, some security issues may ease, but others may grow worse, but you don't have to panic-most of the traditional security principles still work in the cloud. In other words, we should protect and process the data stored in the cloud as local data.

Evaluating data assets is an important prerequisite for understanding cloud security-level requirements, so we need to revisit security policies and update them as necessary to make them truly compatible with change, ultimately making it easier for the existing infrastructure to transition to cloud technology.