What are the Weak Spots that Can Impact Your Cloud Security?  

Brought into account by large organizations, Cloud computing is a continuously emerging technology seeping into groups of even the small businesses. But for moving towards a cloud, you have to be well-prepared. Some of the questions, you need to consider are:

• What is your budget?
• How’ll this affect your workflows?
• Unignorable aspect – how your business will implement cloud security?

In the past few years, cybercrime has flourished as a noticeable issue/danger for the digital world. A report by our McAfee Technical Support researchers shows that the cybercrimes are not slowing down. The description reveals that in the year 2017, our world has to bear the loss of near about $608 due to the cyber-attacks.      

Surprising Fact!

Astonishing but true – 90% of the cloud security breaches are typically not because of the service providers’ fault but the mistake at the customer’s end. Why this is so? As while looking for the providers, most of the businesses make efforts on getting a security system instead of investigating their standards and policies for implementation of the same. This lack of care is the actual culprit for cloud security holes.                

Since the cloud technology is somehow new and so are the tactics to keep it safe, hence, the first step to ensure 100% safety is to identify the weak spots i.e. holes in your security schedule.

Weak Spots:

This blog will display a knowledge base guide by McAfee Customer Support professionals that aid in examining the weak spots that can impact your cloud security.

Cloud & Malware

Being really fast, the hackers are creating new ways for cyber-attacks quicker than businesses are finding the solutions to these innovative tactics. One such avenue refers to disguising malware threats in the normal cloud-based apps being used every day. Other becomes active when you (unintentionally) opens up an infected app, thus exposing your business to a breach.

So, be careful and before opening any application, have a sharp insight on each and every term and condition that it holds. This will prevent you from coming across a question ‘How to recover?’ The answer to which is quite costly.     

Access Management

With constant advancements in technology, the complexity-to-get-unlock and robustness of the password’s needs are increasing. The question that arises here is ‘Why the passwords should include numbers, alphabets, uppercase letters rather than a word that could easily be found in one or the other dictionary?’ Because such powerful and hard-to-detect passwords can leave the cybercriminals with a number of failed attempts. In short – this added layer of complexity is vital in winning the battle against cloud security and data breaches.             

Apart from the powerful password, there are some other factors that must be considered in order to maintain the cloud security. They are:

• Multifactor authentication,
• Identity management systems,
• Cryptographic keys’ constant automatic rotation.

Therefore, along with building and using robust passwords, secure your cryptographic keys and focus on multifactor authentication. These keys can be protected by putting them in a secure PKI (Public Key Infrastructure). Moreover, think about and follow each and every step that the process asked while logging into the bank accounts. Though these things seem a little bit annoying yet are significant for staying safe from cyber-attacks on the cloud. 

Malicious Insider

It refers to someone who poses danger to your enterprise’s cybersecurity by being inside it. He/she could be anyone from a team head, to an admin, to the new or old employee who owns current logins. Yes, it is possible. In fact, near about 14% of small organizations that have experienced cloud security breaches is due to the malicious insider.

Hence, it is crucial to make sure that the individuals within your company should have access to only those platforms and records which is necessary for their work.                     

Bottom Line: Risks to cloud security is related to ‘how you implement the technology’ more than ‘what you implement’. Luckily, by determining the security holes, it turns easy to recover them before they provide the path to cybercriminals. However, if you don’t want to face a costly cloud security breach, it is better to contact IT professionals. Our McAfee Tech Support mavens are the excellent help providers who understand all the ins & outs of this technology. So, contact them and enjoy safer and profitable cloud security.