Public Cloud Hosting, Its Security, and a New Perspective

Public cloud hosting has become a very popular notion among the businesses, no matter how small it is or how big it is. Businesses have started to realise the importance as well as the benefits associated with public cloud and the need of shifting their IT resources from physical servers to cloud ones. The trend is picking up among small, medium, and large enterprises because of the simple fact that they provide businesses with greater scalability, business agility, and most importantly greater efficiency of the capital. Let’s try to understand with the help of an example – There are long standing information security problems in legacy environment. They are policy enforcement, access or identity management, and visibility. These problems can be handled in a much more better manner by SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) of public-cloud environments and their cloud-native tools. Whether it is the matter of threat detection or resolution, both these ideal solutions can be enforced in the built-in foundation of VPC’s (Virtual Private Cloud) foundation of the three aspects – visibility, identity, and policy enforcement. In fact, these problems can be seen in properly deployed public cloud environment too. In fact, migration also brings in certain challenges that are related to information security. That’s why it becomes very important to undertake a mindful as well as cautious approach. When dealing with legacy environment, the most effective way of information asset protection is the early detection. Same is the thing with public cloud hosting. However, this issue is much more prevalent in the migration of hosting resources too.

This is the reason why there have been increased instances of endpoint modelling solution deployment. It enhances existing security stack as well as strengthens security that public cloud provides to the resources of cloud resident IT. Benefits Associated with Endpoint Modelling Each device that is there is a network gets detected automatically with endpoint modelling.

What does it do? It does the following functions – • The usual behavior of the device is created by the software based model • Behavior of the device is being monitored continuously over a time frame in order to find deviations from the model • In case any deviation or similar behavior is detected from the usual one then a real time as well as actionable alert is generated, which is then sent to the security analysts so that proper response is generated for taking adequate action. Hence, it can be said that end-point modelling for public cloud hosting enhances cloud security through cost effective, scalable, and nimble means. Configuration and Behavior – The Gap between Them It is very important to know the configuration state of all resources of the public cloud you are choosing. This is because of the fact that this knowledge helps in differentiating configuration state of policy objects, users, devices, and services from that of the user’s expectation as well as best practices. It is very important for knowing about cloud resistant resources and how they are working. This information is important because that will point out the differential between permitted resource behavior and exhibited resource behavior in public cloud hosting.