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Adopting a multi-cloud infrastructure offers businesses unprecedented advantages,
ranging from the capacity to segregate private and public facing data, to the ability
to select specific services from each vendor, to enhanced reliability. Although all of
these advantages positively contribute to your prevention model, complexity can
directly contribute to data breaches. When it comes to setting up and securing Cloud
servers for example, Flaws and improper encryption configurations are known sources of
extreme damage. Mismanagement of the various Clouds many proprietary and complex
components can cause severe issues. Within cloud computing, having many services,
platforms, technologies and tools to deploy applications in the cloud can burden
your security teams. This ‘operational sprawl’ adds to security complexity, and slows
down processes. Within the PetaCMS Private multi-cloud environment, the management
burden is simplified at the base Layer-2 level. PetaCMS customers fully control a
single systems security for all Cloud services. The security services and systems are
under your supervision. Close the gaps in your multi-cloud security by standardizing
security across all platforms using a comprehensive third party security solution.
With one click deployment and rapid scalability, an automated solution can bring you
the control you need to confidently own your businesses’ day-to-day security posture.
You cannot secure what you cannot see. The fast scale of cloud, log data, and elastic
and dynamic nature of cloud makes it extraordinarily difficult for your security teams
to see and understand what’s going on. Seeing what’s happening in your cloud reduces
rates of incidents, and shortens incident response time. In the age of Multi-Cloud
security, your SIEM solutions easily integrate into your Private Multi-Cloud to feed
the enriched critical data can help you correlate event and log data. Because singular
pieces of event and log data can be manipulated by cyber criminals, it’s imperative to
leverage active flow logs that offer insights across network infrastructure, and across
extended lengths of time. Ensure that you capture detailed traffic information in order
to identify patterns, and tightly track malicious activity. The importance of clear
visibility into data analytics cannot be overstated. Enhanced visibility translates to
better monitoring and compliance, and better overall business outcomes. Today’s cloud
environments can track terabytes of log data per consumer. Trying to establish context
and an understanding of these logs, across different Cloud providers can be a challenge.
It is important to recognize the need for single point tools such as PetaCMS that
provide enhanced cloud visibility.
By default, access to multiple Cloud services, private data center utility compute, as
well as on-premise infrastructure is another essential component of robust data availability,
and a best practice when it comes to maintaining the integrity of your systems. To augment
compliance, data stored in the cloud should be encrypted by default to decrease your
organization’s level of risk. Ensure that there are no deviations from your corporate
policies due to conflicts with public cloud policies, and that legal compliance directives
are continually met. Continuous compliance pays off in that you’ll avoid financial penalties.
Internal and external transparency is a must. In the US, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
can charge organizations with violating Section 5 of the FTC Act, which fines organizations
for careless business practices, and deceptive behaviors. Fifty-two different
cybersecurity-related bills across individual states also aim to protect consumers and to
assign penalties to organizations for negligent security practices. The state of California
recently passed a new data privacy law due to take effect on January 1st, 2020, and broad
federal mandates and penalties are in development phases within the US.
The PetaCMS platform has been created from the ground up to provide a Private Layer-2
Multi-Cloud with the above attributes – Visibility, Security, Transparency & Availability – baked in.
Enterprises routinely fall short in implementing cloud security that they can see, manage, and trust.
Meeting cloud security goals may require rethinking and adapting to agile processes, reducing
complexity, maximizing visibility, and automating compliance. Leveraging new, comprehensive tools
can help address these challenges.
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