Security and the Cloud

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• As more and more businesses migrate to the cloud,
  the question, How safe is it? has become an
  incredibly important one. Comprehensive research
  from Crowd Research indicates that 90 of
  business owners said that they were moderately
  concerned to very concerned about public cloud
  security.1 How justified are these worries about
  security and the cloud?

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• Ever since the cloud came into being, people have
  expressed concerns about its security. While many
  of the worst fears about the security of the
  cloud havent come to pass, it is still true that
  the cloud presents security challenges that some
  companies struggle to manage, creating the
  potential for compromised systems and data
  breaches.

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• While the cloud will never be completely
  impervious to security breaches, the security
  risk involved is often overstated and storing
  data on a private server does not guarantee that
  data will be safer.2 According to business owners
  who have migrated to the cloud, only 28 said
  that their security risk was higher. The rest
  reported their security had improved, remained
  the same, or they did not keep track.

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• Perhaps surprisingly, malware and hacking are not
  the biggest risks to cloud security. Instead, the
  most prevalent cloud security issues are
  unauthorized access (63), accounts being
  hijacked (61), and malicious insiders who
  purposely compromise organizational security from
  within (43). Comparatively, malware and denial
  of service (DoS) attacks were considered to be
  relatively smaller risks (33 and 39,
  respectively).

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• As the previous data shows, the biggest threat to
  cloud security often comes from inside an
  organization, rather than without. Lax internal
  security policies, employee carelessness, and
  malicious insiders can all compromise the safety
  of data irrespective of where its stored  in
  the cloud or internally.

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• To help organizations keep their data safe, cloud
  service providers can provide them with tools
  that help maintain cloud security and which
  effectively monitor their systems to catch
  potential threats as soon as possible. Here at
  frevvo, we help businesses keep their data secure
  with multiple levels of security features.

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• Some of the ways that frevvo keeps information
  shared safe on its cloud-based web forms include
• Keeping all processing and storage contained to
  private subnets with no Internet access.
• Maintaining strict firewalls between all subnets.
• Daily security patches.
• Secure storage access auditing.
• Individual user verification for all sessions and
  data transfers.

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• To keep the cloud secure, businesses and service
  providers need to work together. When service
  providers give organizations access to a robust
  and effective set of security tools, those
  organizations become empowered to protect the
  security of their data from within.

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• frevvos mobile electronic web forms and workflow
  approvals allow businesses to harness the power
  of the cloud. frevvos enterprise-ready web forms
  are easy to build, and can be accessed 24/7 on
  any device.
• To learn more, visit www.frevvo.com today.

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1. http//www.crowdresearchpartners.com/portfolio_ite
   m/cloud-security/
2. http//www.cio.com/article/2922374/cloud-security/
   20-of-the-greatest-myths-of-cloud-security.html

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Summary

• The biggest security threats to the cloud include
  unauthorized access, malicious insiders, and
  employee accounts being hijacked. To combat these
  threats, organizations need a strong internal
  security policy, as well as access to security
  tools from service providers.