Today, the adoption of cloud computing technology has grown tremendously by enterprises. Various leading cloud service providers such as ESDS have expanded their managed cloud services for protecting their existing cloud infrastructure. The customer, along with his cloud provider, is responsible for implementing the right cybersecurity service in the cloud for securing the data present on the cloud.
Cybersecurity in The Cloud

Despite several benefits, consumers often face certain psychological barriers when protecting their critical data against external vulnerabilities, with data is hosted in a public cloud setup. An online survey revealed that the primary concern of the businesses rests with the data loss and leakage followed by legal and exposure challenges to the data.

Consumer Apprehensions Towards Cloud Security

Loss/Theft of Intellectual Property:

Consumers often fear the loss or theft of intellectual property (IP) when moving to the cloud. Online data states that over 3.3 million patent applications were filed in the year 2018. The IPs depict the competitive advantages of the holding companies. Loss or theft of IP can create significant damage to the parent company as various other businesses in the same domain can imitate products as well as processes for much cheaper rates.

Regulatory Compliance Violations:

Today, every business organization follows specific compliance guidelines defined in its industry. A trusted & reputed cloud service provider, however, ensures that its cloud computing services align to the defined compliance standards that an organization needs to follow—not adhering to these guidelines cause compliance-related violations in the cloud computing security.

Minimal Visibility of the Cloud Ecosystem

One of the key concerns that businesses often face with a cloud computing solution is that their CSPs do not give them complete visibility into the cloud environment. When businesses opt for an IaaS or PaaS-based solutions from their CSP, these problem gets reduced significantly since the user can himself configure and manage the cloud environment.

Reduced Control of Cloud Environment Settings

Besides reduced visibility, businesses often tend to face lesser control over their cloud computing environments when using the cloud. Similar to the visibility aspect, the settings can be enhanced more with the IaaS and PaaS-based solutions.

Lateral Spreading of Attacks

Businesses also fear that if a cloud computing environment fails to have a robust defense controls, then it becomes easier for a cyber-attacker to spread the attack from one resource to another hosted on a cloud. This results in rapid lateral spreading & quick compromise across several databases and applications hosted on the cloud in breach-related events.

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