Top 3 Threats to Cloud Security Services

Cloud computing is grabbing its vital place after RSA Conference 2013, among organizations and vendors involved in comprehensive IT solutions. These companies are offering quick controls to companies in order to avoid threats, but first it is an important way for companies to identify their cloud related threats. To avoid such threats companies need reliable cloud security services.

 

10 Best Practices for Integrating Data

Even now in corporate world data integration is often underestimated and poorly implemented. To help companies in identifying cloud computing threats by mentioning nine cloud computing threat for 2013.

The first threat is data breaches.  To point out the importance of this type of threat, CSA pointed to a research paper describing how a virtual machine can be used as side-channel timing information to extract private cryptographic keys in use by other connected virtual machines on the same server. In fact, with such strong connectivity a malicious hacker wouldn’t go to that depth in order to extract important information. In short, if a cloud computing network is not designed properly, even a single flaw in one single machine can leave the whole cloud just like a piece of cake for the hacker. Hackers can steal easily not only information from one node, but from all computers connected to that cloud.

 

Challenge:

The challenge is addressing is eradicating this threat from cloud networks in order to save people from any kind of important data loss. Encryption of data can be used to eradicate the data breach risk using certain encryption technique, but what if you lose your encryption key, you will lose your data.

However, if you are someone ready to keep backups of your data to reduce data loss, but at the same time you will expose your system for more data breaches.

Second threat in a cloud computing environment is disappearing of data to some other place without leaving a single trace.  Hacker might delete a target’s data out of spite, but still this is a situation in which you can leave your data to an unsecure cloud or a careless cloud service provider for bigger disaster such as a flood, earthquake and fire. Summarizing the challenge, encryption of your data in such a way that you can retain it in case of such incidents using your encryption key.

Data loss is not only one threat that is challenging in cloud computing, but also it is really difficult for people who want to store important data in order to get compliance with Government agencies such as HIPPA.

The third cloud computing risk could be service or account hijacking – we are almost familiar with such kind of threat, but in case of cloud computing it will be really hard.  For instance if an hacker can get access to your credentials, he or she can easily monitor, hijack or even mitigate it according to his/her needs by leaving hopeless.