How to secure cloud storage

A report released by Ponemon Cato, a market research firm, shows that most companies are moving aggressively toward cloud computing, even at the risk of failing to secure effective security, sending confidential or sensitive data to the cloud.

One of the companies in the cloud transfer speed, far beyond the enterprise cloud security environment carrying capacity. According to the survey, most respondents said they had uploaded sensitive or confidential data into the cloud, and only 11% of respondents said they had not sent the data to the cloud and had no plans to upload it.

Cloud storage Security

In addition, most think cloud server should be responsible for user data security, nearly one-fifth of respondents believe that the server should share the responsibility of data security, and one-fifth of the respondents believe that the above server should bear the responsibility of data security alone,

The report was conducted in the United States, Britain, Germany, France, Australia, Japan, Brazil and Russia, with a total of 4,275 business and IT managers interviewed.

Editorial Reviews: Although some users believe that cloud storage has some potential security risks, they will upload their own private or confidential information to the cloud. Even organizations or institutions with higher security awareness are more likely to send sensitive or confidential data to the cloud.

Cloud storage Security

This involves two issues, first, that the cloud storage provider needs to improve the security environment for user data security. The cloud server uses encryption, but it is still unable to withstand the intrusion of a "heart drop" worm. The ideal solution is to adopt a "Hardware security module" device that can perform encryption from within the data and not expose the external environment.

Another is that both the general user and the enterprise in the selection of data security, data storage, there are few options. Although there are many different operators to launch their own products, but they use the security technology and operating mode is almost the same, these products can be unified into a class of products. Similar security technologies make them vulnerable to attack, and users ' data security will also be dangerous.

Summary: The survey informs the market that cloud storage needs more secure and reliable services.