Cloud-computing And Its Security-risks

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Cloud-computing And Its Security-risks

For starters, in simple terms a large network of computers powered by some high-tech ventures provided to the public for various purposes like data saving, performing application powered activities is said to be cloud-computing. Examples of such establishments can be Google’s G-drive. G-drive is a cloud based service provided by Google, that allows us users to upload our valuable data on cloud so we can access or download it when- ever and from wherever we want. This is the power of cloud-computing, many operations like video –editing, designing and word-processing can be smoothly done via using online-cloud based applications without having to download or installing any huge size softwares. Now that we have established what cloud-computing is, let’s move on to the next part.

Why is cloud-security so important?

Cloud-security can be described as safeguarding all the data that is present online or cloud from inside-and-outside security-threats like data leaks/theft/breach, un-authorized access, and also data lose or deletion. These all types of incidents pose a huge security-risk on the cloud-based-applications and establishments. As I have previous mentioned an example of Google’s G-drive, imagine if you upload all of your data on your cloud-based drive only to find out that all of your data has been hi-jacked due to some attack by a cybercriminal, that now has all of your sensitive data. What would be your feels now? Not positive, it’s safe to assume that. This is why cloud-security is a very vital element in cloud-based computing.

HOW CLOUD-SECURITY IMPACTS ESTABLISHMENTS

It goes without saying that having both physical and cyber-security is very crucial for every firm as security is a universal threat that is not going to reduce but only going to increase with time. To ensure all the operations of a ventures go smoothly without interruption or halt, having a compact security is vital. According to Cyber-defense-magazine, as high as 96% of ventures and firms use at-least some of form of cloud-based technology that enables them to provide the service or product that they are offering as an establishment. This fact, show us how crucial cloud-technology can be when it comes to ventures and not having a security defense measure can result in an attack or a breach that can cost upto $3.8 Million for a targeted venture (Carric Dooley, 2016). This is why everyone understands the importance of security and spend generously in making their work-space security air-tight. More reasons for spending is cloud-security for establishments and firms includes:
Increased audience size: People who are not that tech-savvy or do not have access to software or do not know how to use them or even do not have high specs systems that can run some software’s can also use cloud-based softwares, that result in establishments getting users from all over the world (Forcepoint, 2019).
Cost reduction: Ventures that have low resources or say are start-ups can benefit a lot from cloud-based technology as using cloud can save costs that would have used to spend on buying high-tech hardware and systems.
High durability: Unlike human cloud based systems have the ability to work without any break or complain. Cloud-systems of a venture can be access able online 24x7, 7 days a week without any halt.
Some other major reasons of why establishments consider spending on cloud-security include:

• It enables them to make work-from-home practice secure for both venture and its employees.
• In case of a disaster, recovery process can be efficient and fast.
• Having cloud-technology and security measures can also help establishments to go through with latest security-regulations or compliance-standards.
• Eliminating un-necessary hardware and workplace space

Similarly there are many other benefits and reasons why associations working globally without a question, use cloud-technology and spend on its security heavily. As many firms use cloud-tech partially or for some of their products or services, while others types of establishments can entirely be sometimes depend on their-cloud based infrastructures. This is why, the spending on security defense measures depend on the size and ventures-type of a venture (Galibus & Pignaton, 2016).

BOTTOM LINE

Cloud-technology is something that has revolutionized how establishments and as users we were used to operate our daily basis of functions and how we used to interact with applications. Cloud defiantly have improved the way of ventures-conduct and the way of using application-and-services and also it has bridged the gap between the lack-of-resources and need for development in low investments. Ventures globally have benefited from this technology and years to come it will evolve more while impacting the lives of the users in a positive way. Although the need for high-security is not going anywhere therefore, it will be best that from time to time latest security defense measures are implemented to ensure safety.