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How to Secure Your Private Cloud Hosting

By November 17, 2019No Comments6 min read
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Most of the enterprises are moving their data and applications to the cloud. There are various benefits of using cloud technology. You don’t need to worry about maintaining your IT infrastructure. It is also very easy to use. Cloud technology is helping companies in saving millions of dollars. It is helping companies in increasing their productivity. It is also more secure when compared to a traditional data center.

But, security is the main issue with public cloud servers. Enterprises don’t have any control over public clouds. Thus, most of the companies are using private cloud hosting for storing their data. You will have full control over your virtual machines. Thus, all you need to do is secure your virtual machines.

If you are using a public cloud, then you don’t have control over your data. Your cloud provider employees can also check your data. If you have to follow compliances like HIPPA, then you can’t use a public cloud. You also can’t control the firewall resources of virtual machines. If you are using a private cloud, then you can control the firewall resources. You will have full control over your applications and data. Thus, private cloud hosting is better than public cloud hosting.

Your cloud provider will already offer you various features and tools. You can use these tools for protecting your resources and data from any illegal use. It will allow you to use the HTTPS endpoint for encrypting your data. There are also various user and administrator controls available. You can also monitor your employee’s activity. Thus, you will have full control over your data. You can follow the below tips for securing your private cloud hosting.

  1. Access Control

Your cloud admin, project admin, project member, and business department head should get the access control of your cloud. They will be using Server-side authentication for gaining access control of your cloud. Each group should as different levels of privileges and access. Only your cloud admin should have access to your whole data. You should use different identification measures for securing your cloud data. These solutions will help you in identifying who can access your cloud data. You should give top priority to access management.

  1. Vulnerability Management

You should regularly scan your cloud for vulnerabilities. There are various tools available in the market that can scan your cloud network. After that, you should perform Penetration testing for determining the risk level of vulnerabilities. You can hire a professional security expert for vulnerability management. It is important to perform regular security audits and vulnerability scanning. This will make sure that your server is secured from hackers.

  1. Authentication and Authorization

You should use an authentication mechanism for identifying your users. The credentials of your user and admin should be securely stored in your cloud. You can use one-way encryption for securing your data. There are various tools available that will help you in monitoring your user action. They will generate a temporary session key for every user. After that, you can use it for monitoring your user commands and actions. If the temporary key has expired, then the user will be automatically logged out. They can again sing in by using the same credentials.

  1. Tools

There are various tools available in the market that you can use for increasing the security of your private cloud. Some of the tools and techniques are:

  • SaaS Security: You can use the HTTPs for securing your communication. It will make sure that the traffic between the server and your cloud is encrypted.
  • No new connections or ports should be established: Your cloud provider should make sure that there are no new ports are established on the firewall. They should also make sure that no inbound connections are opened. This will help you in reducing the vulnerabilities in your server.
  • Key Pairs: Your private cloud will generate a private key pair for every user. The public key is stored on your local workstations and the private key is stored in your cloud server. Your cloud server will first verify these key pairs before establishing any connection.

  1. Application Security

The private cloud has three-layer application security that protects them from attackers. These three layers of application security are:

  • Virtual Machine Firewall policy: Your Virtual machine won’t have any open ports. You can only access some specific ports.
  • Separate private networks: You can create your own private networks in a private cloud. These networks will be completely separated from each other. Also, you don’t need to wait for any network admin to provide you with an IP subnet range.
  • VM can run behind the perimeter firewall: You can run your cloud server behind the standard firewall. Everyone can deploy their Virtual machine in public clouds. Thus, developers don’t know about the ports which are open. It is also difficult to track the applications that are running. This can slow down the application delivery. But, you don’t need to worry about this if you are using a private cloud.

Conclusion

Cloud technology is the future of computing. There are many benefits of using a cloud server. You can save a lot of your money by buying cloud servers. But, security is always a concern with cloud infrastructure. If you are using a private cloud server, then you have full control over it. You can use the above tips for improving your cloud security. There are many other security solutions like soft and hard disk encryption which you can use. You can improve the productivity of your employees by using a cloud solution. It will also help you in keeping your application and data secured from attackers.

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