Cloud Security: Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning

by Sarah Harvey / July 12, 2023

Myths about the Cloud and BC/DR Plans When it comes to Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plans for cloud environments, we often hear this feedback: “I’m in the cloud so I don’t have to worry about Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plans because my cloud provider does those for me.” “We don’t need to test our Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plans, we’ve thought it all through.” “Our cloud service…

5 Best Practices for Cloud Security

by Sarah Harvey / December 19, 2022

How has the cloud impacted your organization’s security? Has it left you wondering – what consequences could we face if a malicious outsider gained access to our cloud environment? Would our clients stay loyal to us if our database was compromised? What can we do to implement cloud security? Our five best practices for cloud security, especially in Azure and AWS environments, include: Identity and Access Management (IAM) Multi-factor authentication…

Who’s Responsible for Cloud Security?

by Sarah Harvey / December 19, 2022

As more and more organizations migrate to the cloud, it drives cloud service customers to consider how the cloud will impact their privacy, security, and compliance. First, cloud service customers must understand how their cloud service provider delivers a secure solution. Second, cloud service customers must consider their new role in cloud security. Some cloud service customers mistakenly believe that when they migrate to the cloud, their cloud security responsibilities…

How Cloud Computing is Changing Small Business

by Sarah Harvey / December 20, 2022

Is your small business considering migrating to the cloud? Has your large business seen more and more competition from small businesses? Cloud computing is essential for businesses of all sizes, but small businesses have seen an endless amount of benefits from cloud computing, including financial, operational, and security benefits. Let’s discuss how each of these items related to cloud computing is changing small business. Affordable Investment There’s been an enormous…

12 Risks You Need to Know to Secure Your Cloud Environment

by Sarah Harvey / April 12, 2023

Advancements in cloud technology have completely changed the way organizations use, store, process, and share data, applications, and software. Cloud environments tend to be more cost-efficient and time-efficient…so why wouldn’t you put your data in the cloud? Because so many organizations are putting so much sensitive data into cloud environments, they have inevitably become targets for malicious attackers. New security vulnerabilities are consistently being discovered and, in a vicious cycle,…