Cloud Security

Cloud Security involves safeguarding online-stored data from theft, leakage, and deletion through various methods such as firewalls, penetration testing, obfuscation, tokenization, virtual private networks (VPN), and avoiding public internet connections. Major threats to cloud security include data breaches, data loss, account hijacking, service traffic hijacking, insecure application program interfaces (APIs), poor choice of cloud storage providers, and shared technology vulnerabilities. Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks pose another significant threat by overwhelming services with data, hindering user access to accounts like bank or email accounts.

Protecting Your Data

To ensure data security, implement your security controls alongside those of your cloud service provider. Key areas of focus include:
– Identity and access management
– Application security
– Cloud workload management
– Cloud network security
– Visibility and intelligence
– Data protection
– Security operations and threat management

Data Protection for the Cloud

While cloud and virtualization offer agility and efficiency, they also introduce various security challenges such as data co-mingling, privileged user abuse, snapshots and backups management, data deletion, data leakage, geographic regulatory requirements, and cloud super-admins. Fortunately, our solutions for two-factor authentication, encryption, and enterprise key management address these challenges, ensuring a trusted and compliant environment for your data, regardless of storage location.

Cloud Data Security Challenges We Address

Challenges we tackle include:
– Data Replication & Lack of Visibility: Ensuring traceability and control over stored snapshots and backups to prevent unauthorized data copying.
– New Class of Privileged Users: Mitigating risks associated with multiple administrators accessing sensitive data, reducing the likelihood of audit failures or rogue actions.
– Data Loss from a Breach: Preventing unauthorized access to sensitive data and blocking access to compromised information.
– Security in Public Cloud Environments: Providing identity and data protection solutions for organizations utilizing public cloud environments like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, IBM Softlayer, and VMware, as well as applications on the Cloud Foundry platform.

Our Solutions

– Cloud and Virtual Data Center Migration: Enabling secure migration of high-value data to the cloud or virtual data center through database encryption with SafeNet ProtectDB.
– Secure Cloud-Based Applications: Protecting cloud-based applications via application encryption with SafeNet ProtectApp and centrally-managed strong authentication with SaaS Security.