Cloud IPP & Security Issues and Risk Managment Matrix

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Learning Topic

Cloud and Network Security Issues Both cloud customers and providers consider security as one of the main issues and risks

of the cloud. Off-premises cloud deployments are accessed over a network and located in

remote data centers along with the resources of many other clients, so they could be

prone to security breaches. On the other hand, cloud providers can often ensure better

security protections than many on-premises installations. Often, a cloud provider has

dedicated security staff identifying and mitigating threats.

Securing the cloud involves taking steps in these areas:

Physical data center security: securing access and resilience of facilities

Network security: secure network access, preventing sniffing, spoofing,

eavesdropping, denial of service; intrusion detection

Account access security: authentication and authorization for both human and

programmatic access, preventing account hijacking, single sign-on, identity and

access management

Infrastructure and application security: hardening system software and machine

images, providing virus, malware protection, preventing virtualization attacks

Data security: making sure that client data is inaccessible to intruders, both in-transit

and at-rest: encryption, digital signatures, digital certificates

Because a big part of cloud functionality is implemented in software, many cloud security

measures apart from physical data center security are also software-based.

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Seven Security Measures to Protect Your Servers

(https://leocontent.umgc.edu/content/dam/course-

content/tgs/cca/cca-

610/document/7SecurityMeasurestoProtectYourServers_checked.p

df?ou=622270)

Cyber Attacks Explained: Packet Spoofing

(https://leocontent.umgc.edu/content/dam/course-

content/tgs/cca/cca-

610/document/CyberAttacksExplained_PacketSpoofing_checked.p

df?ou=622270)

NIST Cloud Computing Security Reference Architecture

(https://leocontent.umgc.edu/content/dam/course-

content/tgs/cca/cca-

610/document/NISTCloudComputingReferenceModel_checked.pdf

?ou=622270)

Security and Privacy Issues in Public Cloud Computing

(https://leocontent.umgc.edu/content/scor/uncurated/cca/2218-

cca610/learning-resource-list/security-and-privacy-issues-in-

public-cloud-computing.html?ou=622270)

Security Analysis in the Migration to Cloud Environments

(https://leocontent.umgc.edu/content/scor/uncurated/cca/2218-

cca610/learning-resource-list/security-analysis-in-the-migration-

to-cloud-environments.html?ou=622270)

An Analysis of Security Issues for Cloud Computing

(https://leocontent.umgc.edu/content/dam/course-

content/tgs/cca/cca-

610/document/AnAnalysisofSecurityIssuesForCloudComputing_ch

ecked.pdf?ou=622270)

Cloud Computing: Security and Reliability Issues

(https://leocontent.umgc.edu/content/scor/uncurated/cca/2218-

cca610/learning-resource-list/cloud-computing--security-and-

reliability-issues.html?ou=622270)

Resources

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