Five cloud security tips
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This document discusses five critical ways to improve security across clouds using a cloud management platform: 1. Use policy-based application and data governance to control which workloads can be placed in which cloud. 2. Automate security technology installation and configuration like firewalls, antivirus, and patch management. 3. Integrate configuration management solutions like Puppet and Chef to ensure compliance with policies. 4. Configure and enforce firewall policies for cloud VMs in private and public clouds. 5. Trigger security scans of VMs to ensure continuous security across cloud workloads.
Five cloud security tips
- 1. Five Critical Ways to Improve Security Posture Across Clouds
- 2. Copyright © 2012 ServiceMesh, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential 2 The Cloud Security Challenge Fewer than half of security and compliance officers feel that they have the technology they need to secure their cloud deployments! Cloud management platforms can play a pivotal role in cloud security by centralizing the orchestration, governance and deployment of cloud applications, platforms and infrastructure across hybrid clouds.
- 3. Copyright © 2012 ServiceMesh, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential 3 Cloud Security Tip Number 1: Policy-based application and data governance is achieved through policies that can dictate which application workload may be placed in which cloud. These governance policies can extend to include user access controls and provisioning constraints. Policy Policy Policy Policy Governance/Security Roles Rights & Permissions Projects Orgs Network Infrastructure Compute Storage Applications & Platforms OS Agents/Utilities Middleware App Config. Data Code DevPoliciesOpsPolicies
- 4. Copyright © 2012 ServiceMesh, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential 4 Cloud Security Tip Number 2: Automate installation and configuration of security technologies including industry standards such as host intrusion-detection systems (HIDS), anti- virus, firewalls, vulnerability assessment and patch management. For IT, concerns regarding security (66%), integration stability and reliability (47%) and ability of cloud computing solutions to meet enterprise/industry standards (35%) challenge adoption. - IDG Enterprise Cloud Computing: Key Trends and Future Effects Report 2013
- 5. Copyright © 2012 ServiceMesh, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential 5 Cloud Security Tip Number 3: 5 OS & Platforms Agents/Utilities Governance Code Plan Develop Test Release Operate Code Code OS & Platforms Agents/Utilities Governance OS & Platforms Agents/Utilities Governance git Be sure your cloud management platform integrates with configuration management solutions such as Puppet and Chef to ensure configuration compliance to policy.
- 6. Copyright © 2012 ServiceMesh, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential 6 Cloud Security Tip Number 4: Cloud-based VMs running firewall policies can easily be configured and enforced with a cloud management platform– both in private and public cloud environments.
- 7. Copyright © 2012 ServiceMesh, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential 7 Cloud Security Tip Number 5: Cloud management platform policies can trigger security and vulnerability scans of VMs to ensure continuous security across cloud workloads.
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