Navigating cloud security risks: Staying ahead of the curve

As businesses of all sizes move to the cloud, security risks are on the rise. With cybercrime increasing year after year, it is essential for organizations to stay ahead of emerging threats and navigate cloud security risks before they become a problem

- Ashok Pandey

As the world becomes more and more digitized, data privacy and confidentiality concerns are only going to become more prevalent. And with the recent rise in cloud computing, these concerns are only amplified. When you store data on a remote server (i.e. in the cloud), you are entrusting that data to the security of that server. And unfortunately, there have been a number of high-profile breaches of cloud security in recent years.

In 2011, for example, Sony's PlayStation Network was hacked, exposing the personal information of 77 million users. This is just one example of why data privacy and confidentiality are major concerns regarding cloud computing. When you store data remotely, you are essentially giving up control over who has access to that data. And if that data falls into the wrong hands, it could be used for identity theft, fraud, or other malicious activities.

Concerns around sensitive data have grown concurrently with the rise in cloud utilization. The SaaS solutions and expanding infrastructure unquestionably increased the services' accessibility. Nearly all solutions provide 99.97% uptime. However, are they also upholding security, confidentiality, and privacy requirements, which are crucial to the data you and your clients store?

The majority of contemporary solutions have seen rapid feature evolution. These are created by entrepreneurs who are always competing with time to develop and release new features, enter the market first, and signup customers. Large-scale service providers like AWS, Azure, GCP, etc. are the foundation for these solutions.

You might have taken a detour while you were creating that exposed private information to the public, or perhaps you accidentally switched off the encryption. This need not occur in your setting, but you can attest to the legitimacy of any vendor you work with.