Cloud Security Best Practices

 

“Security and compliance is a shared responsibility between AWS and the customer.” Customer must take responsibility on their end by choosing which Amazon services to utilize in order to fully protect the availability and integrity of their cloud data.

• Educate your employees. 

• Encrypt your data. 

Just like we put combination locks on our gym lockers, it’s extremely smart to protect all data using encryption.

• Implement multi-factor authentication. 

Passwords are not enough to keep information safe. When you implement multi-factor authentication, you add an extra layer of protection to your information making it difficult for information to be stolen.

• Limit access control. 

Identity and access management (IAM) technologies allow IT managers to control user access to important information. Implementing IAM is a powerful way to limit access and offer increased protection for critical information.

• Test security measures. 

White hat hackers help organizations through attempting to hack into company systems to test heir security. Work with ethical hackers to detect vulnerabilities in your system before a malicious hacker does.

• Monitor and remediate resource misconfigurations. 

Use a robust cloud security solution that seamlessly remediates misconfigurations and reduces the window of opportunity for malicious actors.

• Detect and remediate anomalous user activities. 

A robust cloud security platform uses AI to detect abnormal behaviors and sensitive user activities.

• Detect and remediate suspicious network traffic. 

It is crucial to monitor your cloud environments for suspicious network traffic across all resources to detect threats such as network intrusions and cryptojacking.

• Identify vulnerable hosts. 

Since IP addresses are constantly changing and cloud resources are continually being created and destroyed, make sure your vulnerability data is correlated with configuration data to accurately identify vulnerable hosts in your public cloud environment.