Top 5 Security Risks of Cloud Computing

Top 5 Security Risks of Cloud Computing

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Take a look at the enumerated details below:

1.       Data security – this holds true especially if you are handling very sensitive information on the cloud. This is the same reason as to why some enterprises have doubts in putting their corporate data in the cloud. Using hybrid or private cloud can be the answer.

2.       Service provider access – as cloud services is, most often than not, handled by service providers there may be people outside your company who will be handling and seeing these information. There should be a defined Service Level Agreement to answer this.

3.       Data Separation – in the case of a service provider handling multiple clients, how can the service provider ensure that your data will be a separate entity of the other? What are the possibilities of it being intertwined?

4.       Data Sovereignty – specially in cases of the government getting into cloud computing, it becomes an issue if these data will be hosted outside the country. Because it will mean that the data will be subject to the other country’s laws and not your country.

5.       Weak Software Interface – security of your information in the cloud is also dependent on the APIs. This can also lead to exposing corporate data.