Five steps to secure your data on the cloud

June 6 Apple icloud officially released, of which 9 cloud services are free. Cloud service is a trend and a tendency. At the same time, more and more of our data will be stored on the cloud rather than on the PC. Although recent major cloud computing giants have had serious security problems, including the biggest Amazon downtime, the information stolen from Sony tens of millions of users, but more and more people choose cloud computing.

While moving data to the cloud, not many people have a clear understanding of how to secure data security on the cloud, so Mr. Phil Wainewright the following five steps to help you effectively secure the data on the cloud.

1. Focus on security

Hackers usually have two ways to invade network data, the first is through the merchant's cloud services infrastructure, as mentioned above, even if reputable companies have accidents, the second is through your login information, this is the simplest and most commonly used method. We have always emphasized that cloud service providers should secure the data on the cloud, but we should also pay attention to the security of information.

2. Use complex and easily memorized passwords

Setting up a complex password is easy, but the problem with this is that complex passwords are not easy to remember. How do you set up a complex and easy to remember password? First you can choose something that is deeply memorable, and then convert it to a password by numbers, letters, characters, and so on. How do you choose something that is deeply memorized? Can be address, license plate number, phone number, birthday, but remember: do not use their own, use others, such as your colleagues, friends and other people; Do not use the current information, you can use the previous information, such as the car sold more than 10 years ago, the license plate number, the previous home address and so on. Mix all of the information that is irrelevant to your current situation: A person's birthday + part of a previous old address + a long time before the license plate number, forming a complex but easy to remember the password.

3. Focus on protecting your mailbox password

There is no doubt that we will be using some passwords repeatedly, especially for non-critical information. However, the mailbox password must be unique, because most Web sites reset their passwords by e-mailing the new password to your mailbox.

In order to protect data security, you can not be afraid of trouble. For example, you can set up a double protection for your mailbox: Enter the mailbox by typing both the temporary password and the mailbox password.

4. Attach importance to password reset function

In most cases, many people attach great importance to the security of passwords and password protection, but ignore the password reset, resulting in passwords difficult to crack but very easy to reset the situation. So in addition to setting up a complex and easy to remember password, you should strictly restrict the condition of password reset.

5. Don't put all your eggs in one basket

The purpose of safety is to reduce the loss, the danger can not be completely eliminated, so do not put all the eggs in the same basket, so as to spread the risk and reduce the loss.

Original author Phil Wainewright, original link: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/saas/5- Practical-steps-to-keep-your-data-secure-in-the-cloud/1321?tag=content;selector-blogs

(Responsible editor: Lu Guang)