Security of Cloud Computing Continues to Get Robust

Adopting cloud computing could be beneficial in a number of ways and this is now known to the entire enterprise sector. The major benefits are reduced IT costs, increased staff flexibility, increased business agility, improved information access system and lastly, security. Yes, it has also proven its effectiveness as the most secure way of storing the corporate data. Over the years, businesses were reluctant from adopting cloud because of the security related issues, but as technology has advanced, cloud vendors have devised techniques that have made the make their security more robust. This has started showing its affect and businesses have started showing their faith in the cloud.

Security features are infused keeping customers in the mind and in most cases, cloud security is made far better than the security provided by business owners on their own. I have personally seen the level of dedication they show while working to make the security of their storage more robust. They test every security aspect before launching the cloud for enterprises use. On the other hand, businesses do not have time, resources and skills to apply such robust security in their storage.

The result of more stout security of cloud services is that businesses can stay away from the hassles of downtime and outages.

Another feature of the security offered by cloud vendors is a more secure sign-on authority and multi-level authentication. Most big brand cloud vendors offer two levels of security. Now every cloud vendor has made security even robust by proving an additional level of security. This way, now users have to verify through verification code, then enter the username and the password and finally fill the password provided by the cloud vendor company. The result is that they get an added level of security over the traditional username and the password that could be easily hacked.

Security certification – Large-scale business houses can easily gain a high-level security certificate but this is something that small business owners stay deprived of. However, by adopting cloud computing, small business owners also get the level of security as well as all security related certificates that a big brand business receives. For example, Google provides its clients with SSAE 16 Type II security certificate, ISO 27001 certificate and the FISMA certificate awarded by the Federal Government. Are businesses capable of getting all these certificates on the security that they implement?

Physical security is at par with the Fort Knox – Cloud computing service providers usually deploy the hyperactive level of physical security and watchfulness around their servers. They have a dedicated team of IT experts that monitors every activity going on around the servers. This is something that business owners can't achieve on their own. Moreover, business owners also have to take staff access, usability, space, budget, skills and availability of resources into consideration before deciding to get an in-house storage house.

Google says that its full-time security team maintains very high-level security of the servers and test it on some the toughest parameters to make sure there is no flaw in the security. Now cloud computing service providers have access controls, guards, video surveillance and perimeter fencing to protect their premises and data stored on their servers.

However, in clod computing, everything boils down to the economics of scaling. Businesses can get huge benefits from the resources, experience, expertise, specialists and other security features infused by the cloud vendors.