As more and more data and network infrastructure is moved onto cloud platforms, securing those platforms becomes ever more important.
Many businesses think that as they are relying on a third-party cloud services provider like Microsoft Azure or Amazon AWS, the provider will be taking care of all the security. However, this isn’t quite accurate.
A complex and long password full of random numbers or letters used to be considered the height of password security – but even the strongest password isn’t much use if someone else tricks you into revealing it. The purpose of password security isn’t to test your brain’s ability to remember a collection of obscure symbols, it’s to validate your identity as the correct owner of the account. To this end, Multi Factor Authentication (MFA) is a far superior way of proving that you are who you say you are.
With an ever-increasing amount of IT infrastructure now hosted in the cloud and protected by the security teams of some of the world’s biggest service providers like Amazon, Microsoft and Google, the primary focus for data security is now access control. For example, while the security of your assets in the cloud is normally the responsibility of your chosen cloud service provider, the responsibility of securing the access to your cloud assets rests with you.
When it comes to IT support, New York businesses’ top priority is cybersecurity. With the number of ransomware attacks and data breaches on the rise constantly, if you’re not taking your cybersecurity seriously already, you need to start!
In the past year, many businesses have transitioned to a work from home environment, and many are going to continue operating like this, at least some of the time. While this has provided a welcome flexibility for many employees, it has posed a host of new cybersecurity challenges for businesses.