Cloud Safety and Security for Your Small Business
Many companies that we meet with are still concerned about the safety and privacy of transitioning their company files and applications to the cloud. The sense of a loss of control is certainly understandable. For so long, company leaders have been able to understand where the company data and applications reside. Executives can go into the computer room and actually see the servers and equipment. Moreover, the data seems safe since the computer room door is locked, right?
We recognize your fear.
Migration of any or all systems to the cloud requires a leap of faith for business owners and executives accustomed to physical comfort of servers and hard drives in the computer room. Cloud service providers recognize this fear and continue to improve the safety, security and ease of use of cloud based systems. Think Tech Advisors incorporates cloud use into the majority of the solutions that we recommend. Microsoft in particular, provides a great example. Since the start of Office 365, Microsoft has continually added security features and programs to enhance the overall cloud experience.
The world really does work differently today.
In Q2 2016 Microsoft will be introducing more advancements which will further improve the ability for real-time, anytime, anywhere collaboration applications. More on this to come, but rest assured that these mobile applications will replace traditional applications in the near future.
In addition to the collaboration applications, Office 365 and Azure Cloud will acquire many new security and management capabilities. The added collection of security features is part of Microsoft’s enterprise security approach, but also will greatly benefit the SMB market customers.
Letting you in on some Microsoft plans.
According to a blog post by Bret Arsenault – Microsoft Chief Information Security Officer, Microsoft is planning the release of a number of security enhancements to their platform. New integrated security management capabilities will alert when suspicious activity occurs within the service. Also included is app discovery which will report which users are connecting to which applications, and restrict or approve third-party services.
Other cloud security products from Microsoft in the Azure platform similarly provide additional security and reporting. There is a new feature which will be able to detect suspicious user activity within the service utilizing Microsoft’s database of brute force attacks, leaked credentials, unusual source locations and known infected devices.
Bret Arsenault goes on to say “As attackers get more sophisticated, we need to evolve our ability to get real-time insights and predictive intelligence across our network so we can stay a step ahead of the threats. We must be able to correlate our security data with our threat intelligence data to know good from bad.”
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Editor’s Note: This post contains some news and information gathered from the Progress Report: Enterprise security for our mobile-first, cloud-first world by Bret Arsenault and has been updated for freshness, accuracy, and comprehensiveness.
