Cloud Defense

Here are some best practices to ensure that your organization’s data remains safe and that your valued customers can continue trusting your services.

Do Your Homework

Before choosing a cloud provider, make sure to know your cyber security needs and how different cloud providers will handle them. For all the applications and data that are being transferred to the cloud, it’s essential to assess vulnerability and ensure that your cloud provider can eliminate or improve these risks.

Added Security

Public cloud security is both the responsibility of the cloud provider and the organization or cloud customer, which means you will have to develop cyber security solutions regarding:

• Security policies on cloud services
• Evaluation of vendor’s encryption capabilities
• Encrypting data before uploading to the cloud
• And more

Security solutions, policies, and systems within an organization are essential when using a public cloud, but for many organizations determining what methods work best with particular cloud providers is a big challenge.

Scrutinize Before You Sign

Before you sign on the dotted line, make sure you have all the details. Ensure that a cloud provider can meet your organization’s identify and access management standards, or else you’ll have to manage them separately.

Some other essential components to play close attention to are the cloud provider’s data protection practices, physical security measures, and incident response.

If something goes wrong, you want to know how you’ll be notified, how much information will be shared with you, what response measures will be taken, and how you will be helped if your data is hacked. You’ll also want to know what the legal implications are if something goes wrong.

Lastly, you want to know what happens to your data when the contract is finished.

Taking the Risk Out of Public Cloud Computing With Digital Forge

The safety of your organization on the public cloud isn’t only the cloud provider’s responsibility; it’s yours too. And that’s a huge role to take on, so for every step from choosing a cloud provider to implementing effective additional managed cyber security, see how Digital Forge can make it all as simple and safe as can be.

By 2020, more than 83% of enterprise workloads will be in the cloud, depending on what survey you read, this percentage is even higher. Whether your organization is already in the cloud or you are ready to make the switch, understanding how data security changes in the private cloud is essential.

Unlike with public cloud providers, where you don’t have much control over anything from firewalls to management, with the private cloud a lot more is under your control, so it’s less of a threat. But in the end, a private cloud is still a cloud, and there are always risks including lower visibility into traffic and activity, security breaches, and data loss. With a private cloud, ensuring that these risks are avoided through complete security solutions is your responsibility.

With the private cloud, you can control every aspect of security which means firewalls are dedicated to your organization, and you know who has access to your resources. But if you don’t know how to manage that security, the control won’t prevent cyber attacks, threats, and risks.

Approaching Private Cloud Security

Digital Forge offers managed security services that provide your organization with the best security solutions. Security solutions for a private cloud system will be geared toward physical server features, with a focus on securing each server as if it were a physical environment.

Since with a private cloud, security is under your control; Digital Forge can quickly identify any problems and work to mitigate them immediately, as well as step in with improvements.

Private Cloud Providers

When it comes to hosting a private cloud, you have the option of using a cloud provider or keeping it in-house. There are many components to consider when making that decision including compliance with regulations such as HIPAA/HITRUST, ISO 27001/27018, PCI DSS, and SOC 2 / SSAE 16.

At Digital Forge, we work with private cloud providers and organizations across all industries that are serious about cyber risk management. Whether you need help choosing a cloud provider, keeping your private cloud secure, or are a private cloud provider looking to amp up security measures, we have the expert security team you need.

With the private cloud, you can control every aspect of security which means firewalls are dedicated to your organization, and you know who has access to your resources. But if you don’t know how to manage that security, the control won’t prevent cyber attacks, threats, and risks.

Approaching Private Cloud Security

Digital Forge offers managed cybersecurity services that provide your organization with the best security solutions. Security solutions for a private cloud system will be geared toward physical server features, with a focus on securing each server as if it were a physical environment.

Since with a private cloud, security is under your control; Digital Forge can quickly identify any problems and work to mitigate them immediately, as well as step in with improvements.

Private Cloud Providers

When it comes to hosting a private cloud, you have the option of using a cloud provider or keeping it in-house. There are many components to consider when making that decision including compliance with regulations such as HIPAA/HITRUST, ISO 27001/27018, PCI DSS, and SOC 2 / SSAE 16.

At Digital Forge, we work with private cloud providers and organizations across all industries that are serious about cyber risk management. Whether you need help choosing a cloud provider, keeping your private cloud secure, or are a private cloud provider looking to amp up security measures, we have the expert security team you need.

Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) are taking advantage of the widespread growth of cloud computing by increasingly moving their services to cloud platforms. This move presents high-security risks, so managed security solutions are a priority.

With advancements in cloud services, ISVs increasingly offer products on a software as a service (SaaS) basis. SaaS delivery models are becoming more and more popular; some examples are Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. With the rise of SaaS delivery methods, complete security solutions are essential for maintaining brand integrity and protecting customer data.

ISVs provide features to ensure security and compliance, but to keep your information and your customer’s information as secure as possible and your organization’s risks at a minimum, its best to boost security with a cyber security team that offers more.

Here are just some of the many ways that boosting security with complete security solutions from Digital Forge can keep your services and infrastructure safe:

Data Protection

Keeping valuable data out of reach from cyber attacks and hackers is the forefront of IT security measures. With ISVs there are many ways to ensure data confidentiality, such as using Identity and Access Management (IAM), implementing authentication and authorization capabilities, and automating rotation of access keys, to name a few.

Encryption

With cloud-based systems, products from ISVs are delivered through the internet, meaning encryption is critical to ensure safe availability of customer information.

Through features such as AWS Certificate Manager and AWS Application Load, you can ensure secure exchanges of information. Through the use of approved TLS/SSL encryption ciphers and automatic renewal of TLS certifications, this process can be done without additional management from your team.

Compliance

ISVs need to comply with regulations such as the General Data Security Standard (GDPR), Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS), and many others.

These compliances protect from known vulnerabilities, and with Digital Forge’s complete security services, you can enhance this compliance to more than just the basics.

Threat Management

ISVs feature threat detection services that keep an eye out for malicious and unauthorized activity on workloads, but with Digital Forge, threat management and response systems are advanced.

Our threat management solutions equip you with a team of experts monitoring your workloads, innovative technology, and strategic action plans in case of detection, to keep your risks minimized.

Recovery

At Digital Forge, we take a proactive approach to prevent disasters, but we also play it safe by being prepared for the worst. That means we’re always ready for restoration in the event of any unintended data damage, such as an issue caused after a software release, ensuring that any disruption to your customer’s service is negligible.