From the course: CCSP Cert Prep: 2 Data Security
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Cloud storage security threats
From the course: CCSP Cert Prep: 2 Data Security
Cloud storage security threats
- [Instructor] Organizations use cloud services for a wide variety of data storage needs. These cloud services offer tremendous flexibility and cost effectiveness, but they also come with security concerns that administrators must address in order to protect against cloud storage threats. The basic principle that organizations should follow is should apply the same security controls to data stored in the cloud as you would data stored in your own data center. If you'd encrypt information in your own data center, you should encrypt it in the cloud. If you'd restrict access in your own data center, you should restrict access in the cloud. There are two main issues you should think about when handling cloud data security. These are encryption and access control. The way you'll implement encryption depends upon the type of service that you're using and the way that you use it. For example, when you're using an…