The importance of cloud computing has become pervasively vital for every industrial and commercial sector. Every digital media user, either business or personal, wants to secure their information and cloud is a great medium for data security. Analyzing the surge demand of cloud service providers such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Cybersecurity Insiders have released 2019 Cloud Security Report. It reveals how Cloud platform has turned the tables in the IT sector with regards to securing online data storage system.
Steady increase in public cloud security
The report suggests 38% of organizations are extremely concerned about their cloud data security. Meanwhile, 93% of the companies are moderately concerned about their public cloud security. This depicts that the demand of public cloud will see a steady growth in the coming years thus, making acceptance of cloud data storage inevitable by the hesitant users. However, over 28% of organizations have revealed their cloud security incidents and cyber threats annually. Data exposure, malware infection and compromised accounts are some of the major concerns.
Approximately 84% organizations are confident about their cloud security model which is a huge number. However, 37% of enterprises come under over-confident category because they have never faced a cloud security threat in their entire business span.
Biggest cloud security concerns and threats
According to the statistics mentioned in the report, the biggest cloud security challenges are data loss and data privacy or confidentially.
Cloud security threats not only include cyber-attacks but also non malicious causes such as floods, earthquakes, and simple human errors. To overcome these problems, cloud providers are continuously improving their security services, but customers are the key person for their data privacy.
The figures state that unauthorized access and insecure interfaces have increased by 42% as the single biggest vulnerability. While, misconfiguration of the cloud platform and hijacking of accounts are the further emerging cloud threats in the tech-world.
Everyday, incredible amount of data is produced resulting in cyber-security experts to experience the complications in storing the massive workload safely. Compliance and lack of visibility into infrastructure security are yet another set of challenges faced by 34% and 33% experts respectively. However, there are many traditional security tools to manage cloud data but experts believe that most of them are incapable of adapting to the dynamic, uncategorized and unorganized properties of the cloud.
Over the years, respondents have become more selective of their choice of cloud security tools against cyber threats. The research has revealed that users prefer cloud solutions that give better performance with lesser costs involved and time spent on management of the same.
Benefits of cloud deployment
Cloud computing is delivering satisfying services by delivering flexible storage capacity, scalability, improved agility, security, and availability benefits.
Existing Challenges in Cloud Security Solutions
Regardless of the incredible benefits of cloud security there are still some hidden drawbacks in securing the cloud data. For efficient business transformation and cloud adoption process, it is important to align three key elements: people, process and technology. Technology isn’t a problem anymore. The actual challenge lies with the people and processes.
Ways to Better Cloud Security
The study reveals the importance of certified and trained staff to improve the cloud security process. Fortunately,over the years experts have worked extensively on cloud provider’s native security tools to overcome the loopholes of the cyber world.
Meanwhile, there are several cloud security skills that an organization must adopt to improve the safety of their cloud data and have knowledge of network behaviors to assure their cyber safety.
Overall, the report gives us a clear idea that as long as the internet thrives in the world, cyber security will top the priority list of every sector. In the coming years, organizations will have no choice but to adopt to cloud security to ward off any kind of cyber theft. Meanwhile, cloud security developers are continuously upgrading the cyber security process to remove hidden data-threats and this works in favor of its users. Developers are increasingly pragmatic in their approach for providing cyber security to their users in order to eliminate any conflict of interest.
