4 ways to secure your Cloud Hosted Business

There’s no dearth of cloud service providers today. After all, it’s supposed to be the next big thing after the Internet. But the management of a business organization looking forward to cloud hosted business  processes must not ignore security at all. 

1. Avoid Hard coding

At times, it may seem like an easy way out to hard code certain credentials anywhere in the code. Don’t do that. Always make sure that access keys even for the most basic tasks to be performed by junior employees are never hard coded.

2. Key Rotation Policy

Having a pre-determined key rotation policy is an absolute must. Make sure to rotate keys at least once in 8-12 weeks. CSOs should personally see that this policy is executed without fail.

3. Avoid Default Permission Settings

Nearly all cloud service provider companies offer packages that come with default permission settings. It is done to make the initial setup easier for new users. You can ask your IT support company to have these permission settings altered as per your unique requirements.

4. Create a Password Policy

Passwords for all user accounts should be a minimum of 10 characters long.

Final Words

Business critical data that you just cannot afford losing at any cost, should be backed up locally too. Also, it’s important that you have a disaster recovery plan and incident response mechanism in place. Just in case cloud services suffer downtime or are no longer available due to poor connectivity, for example, you should be able to minimize the loss the revenue.

Cloud computing is here to help you cut costs while at the same time get high-tech in no time. Just make sure to do it the right way!