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What is Cloud Infrastructure Security

Cloud infrastructure security focuses on protecting both physical and virtual components of cloud computing services from various security threats. It encompasses different models such as public, private, and hybrid cloud security, each with distinct responsibilities for managing security. Implementing effective security measures can enhance business continuity, regulatory compliance, and overall confidence in cloud environments.

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What is Cloud Infrastructure Security

Cloud infrastructure security focuses on protecting both physical and virtual components of cloud computing services from various security threats. It encompasses different models such as public, private, and hybrid cloud security, each with distinct responsibilities for managing security. Implementing effective security measures can enhance business continuity, regulatory compliance, and overall confidence in cloud environments.

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What is Cloud Infrastructure Security?

Cloud infrastructure security involves protecting the infrastructure that cloud computing
services are based on, including both physical and virtual infrastructure. Physical
infrastructure includes the network infrastructure, servers, and other physical components of
cloud data centers, while the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offerings — such as
virtualized network infrastructure, computing, and storage — comprise the virtual
infrastructure made available to cloud users.

Goal

The main goal of cloud infrastructure security is to protect this virtual infrastructure against a
wide range of potential security threats, including both internal and external threats. By
implementing policies, tools, and technologies for identifying and managing security issues,
companies reduce the cost to the business, improve business continuity, and enhance
regulatory compliance efforts.
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Companies are increasingly moving to the cloud, entrusting these environments with
sensitive data and business-critical applications. As a result, cloud security is a growing
component of their cybersecurity programs, and cloud infrastructure security is a crucial part
of this.
Types of Cloud Infrastructure Security
Cloud environments come in various forms, and the details of cloud infrastructure security
depend on the cloud model in use. The three main types of cloud infrastructure security
include:
 Public Cloud Infrastructure Security: According to the public cloud shared responsibility
model, the physical infrastructure in public cloud environments is managed and protected by
the cloud provider who owns it, while the virtual infrastructure is split between the cloud
vendor and the customer..

 Private Cloud Infrastructure Security: Private clouds are deployed within an


organization’s data centers, making the organization responsible for ensuring private cloud
security, including the security of the underlying infrastructure.

 Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure Security: Hybrid clouds mix public and private cloud
environments. This means that responsibility for the underlying infrastructure is shared
between the cloud provider (in the case of public cloud) and the cloud customer.

How to secure Cloud Infrastructure?


Identity and Access Management(IAM): Use IAM tools to authorize user identity and deny
access to unauthorized parties. IAM tools include Identity Providers(IdP), Single Sign-On,
Multifactor authentication(MFA) and Access Control.
Zero-trust Model: This model emphasizes continuous verification and monitoring and the
principle of “never trust, always verify”.
Compliance Frameworks: GDPR(General Data Protection Regulation), CCPA(California
Consumer Privacy Act), HIPAA(Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) to
ensure data security and reduce the risk of legal and financial consequences.
Data Loss Prevention tools(DLP): Use cloud DLP tools to detect and block suspicious data
transfers, data modification or deletion or data access.
Classify data: Classify data into sensitivity levels to focus on data that has security or
compliance implications.
Remove unused data: Remove unnecessary data to reduce the attack surface
Training Programs: Teach employees how to identify and respond to phishing emails and
other attempts to steal their other credentials.
Benefits of Cloud Infrastructure Security

A mature cloud infrastructure security program can provide various benefits to the cloud
customer, including:

 Improved Security: Cloud infrastructure security provides additional visibility and


protection for the underlying infrastructure that supports an organization’s cloud services.
This enhanced security posture enables more rapid detection, prevention, and remediation of
potential threats.

 Greater Reliability and Availability: Cyberattacks and other incidents can cause an
organization’s cloud-based applications to go offline or cause other unplanned behavior.
Cloud infrastructure security helps to reduce the risk of these incidents for example by
blocking attack traffic, improving the availability and reliability of cloud environments.

 Simplified Management: Cloud infrastructure security solutions should be part of an


organization’s cloud security architecture. This makes it easier to monitor and manage the
security of cloud environments as a whole.

 Regulatory Compliance: There are a wide variety of regulations with which cloud
customers need to comply, depending on their business requirements. Many of these
regulations define organizations’ access to their computing environments and the sensitive
data that they hold. Protecting the underlying infrastructure supporting these environments is
essential for regulatory compliance.
 Decreased Operating Costs: Cloud infrastructure security can enable organizations to find
and fix potential issues before they become major problems. This reduces the cost of
operating cloud-based infrastructure.

 Cloud confidence: Cloud customers who are confident in their security will move more
workloads to the cloud, faster. This enables the cloud customer to more rapidly take
advantage of the benefits of the cloud.

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