The biggest issue that faces every user of a cloud service, regardless of whether they’re a
home or business user, is security. How can you be certain your data is safe from hackers in a
cloud? Nothing is 100% secure but we can take precautions.
The approach with Cyber security is often to ensure that you have multiple layers of security in place. Here then are
ten golden rules for cloud security.
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Cloud Security
Always use a cloud service that offers full
encryption for your data. Ideally, the cloud
service will offer 256-bit AES military-grade
encryption across all it’s communications and storage. This way,
it’s going to be exceedingly difficult for a hacker to gain entry
through brute force alone.
RULE 1Encrypting your data before uploading it to a
cloud service is a highly enterprising idea.
Providing you takes steps to ensure the
encryption keys are safe, then all your data will be a
jumbled mess of characters should someone ever gain entry
to your account.
RULE 2If you’re going to use a cloud service to store
your data, then it’s best to fully read and digest
the Terms of Service of the cloud provider.
You’ll be able to see where they store your data, what actions
they perform to ensure its safety and what they can do in the
event of a breach or data disaster. RULE 3If possible, try not to store any sensitive and
extremely personal data on the cloud and if
you do, then make sure it has been encrypted
before being uploaded to the cloud. Bank details, names,
addresses, credit card numbers are all worth their weight in
gold to a hacker; also, don’t store any text files containing
passwords on the cloud. RULE 4Advanced Cloud Uses