Ever since the cloud started to hover over the prospects of technological evolution, IT pros and businesses had no problems taking to it in droves. Yet, all of us had this hangover on cloud security and the possible risks companies might face.
The actual story, however, is that cloud computing has seen growth levels that defy fears of cloud security. Gartner predicts that it’s the cloud that’ll shape the future of IT (in spite of the prevailing fear about cloud security). Here’s why cloud computing’s growth will remain unfettered and why, as a business, you shouldn’t let this fear eat your heart away:
Risk is inevitable in business
We hear it all the time, “The cloud is risky”. We ask: What isn’t?
The country or the economy you bet on when you start and register your business is already on the risk that pertains to your precinct’s economic strength. Staffing, resources, assets, cash flow, and profits – all of these aspects have an element of risk-layered smooth. As for IT, networks can collapse; systems can go down; security threats have always played an illustrious role in devastating many fortunes throughout history.
If you are in business, risk is like those pills you must take for survival. We can’t avoid risk, and that’s why we have “risk management”
All roses have thorns
The very first computers were too big to have any practical or commercial applications. The first of the operating systems had more bugs than features. Every software or app released today still has bugs and busy customer support teams. Technology evolves; it’s not handed to everyone on a silver plate, worked to perfection. Cloud computing is evolving like all previous trends gone by. It further ushered in other trends that’ll also continue to evolution. All evolution is trial-and-error. The sooner businesses understand evolution, the easier it’ll be to work with technology.
Delinking Cloud risks is your Vendors’ job; you just have to stay vigilant
Let Cloud Vendors worry about cloud security. We presume you have a business to run, don’t you? Of course, your business stands to lose if there’s a security breach, when your database is exploited, or when those datacenters fail. This is where the entrepreneurial lesson of “learning to trust others” comes into play. When vendors sign those SLA (Service Level Agreements), they are taking up the lion’s share of responsibility to keep your business secure on the cloud. There are vendors who exclusively provide business continuity services.
Stay vigilant, keep your eyes and ears peeled, collaborate with vendors to ensure maximum safety for your business – just don’t try to run your vendors’ business instead of your own.
Best practices help
Some of the best vendors invest in new technology, security measures, and best practices to make sure that they honor their agreements with their clients. They work hard to keep their clients’ businesses safe on the cloud. Vendors use encryption based data transfers and management; secure site management; multiple servers for redundant data services; continuous data management; unified security protocols, and many more processes and systems. These solutions, tools, and practices will continue to evolve, change, and grow to a point where cloud poses just as much risk -- or even perhaps even less -- as on-premise IT systems
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