Securing the Cloud

These days, people have more than just their head in the clouds. Clouds are a way of massively expanding your information infrastructure without expanding the physical systems that maintain and support them. Cloud computing virtually externalises the systems and services required by a company. The companies place their virtual servers outwithoutside their own perimeter, clouding their network and placing databases, file storage and communication systems onto the Internet.

Flexible Cloud computing allows the cumulative use of multiple virtual servers, housed all over the world. By pooling the massive processing power of these connected servers within the cloud, large pharmaceutical, medical research and defence companies can get the power of 'super computers' for a fraction of the cost.

However, as more companies in the UK begin using Cloud technology computing in this way, it becomes vital that sharing processing power does not present hackers with an opportunity to breach security and gain access to the data within the cloud. If your organisation uses cloud systems to transfer data, process tasks and communicate, you need to ensure that your cloud is appropriately secured. Sharing could lead to shared security flaws. But how would know?

While you may have properly protected your own systems, it's possible that your Cloud provider may not have the same level of security that you do. They could even attract more aggressive threats from highly experienced hackers, focused on stealing great amounts of data from multiple clients within the same cloud. In fact, security is one of the universally acknowledged limitations of Clouds.

If you're considering Cloud technology, it is important to plan how it is protected. By requesting a Penetration Testing computing team to attempt to ethically test the level of protection offered by the Cloud provider, you can prevent serious potential damage from professional intruders. Protecting this new way of storing and processing information is one of the most recent challenges facing information security specialists.

The Cloud provider may offer standard security measures and features, but penetration testing is still required if you are to assure yourself and your company that you are secure against attacks from serious, organised and persistent hackers.

Your Cloud provider may suggest to you that their systems are already secure, but the trouble is that cloud security is often an intangible matter. Unlike traditional perimeter security, you can't see touch it and you can't see it working. You have to take their word for it and this can lead to a false sense of security. But no matter what your cloud provider promises, cloud technology computing is not natively secure against serious threats to intrusion and data theft.

When you use a Penetration Testing company, they will not only test the cloud security for weaknesses and potential breaches, they will also advise you on how you can best protect the systems that use Clouding from attack. Don't leave the protection of your information and data to a third party; get it independently tested before someone attempts to exploit any weaknesses in the Cloud.

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