Cloud Solutions to Strengthen Your Data Security

The adoption of cloud-first solutions within Australian organisations is transforming how businesses operate. Leveraging diverse workloads across public and private cloud infrastructures offers tremendous benefits. However, ensuring data security for cloud-native, SaaS, and container applications remains a challenge.

Many Australian enterprises find it difficult to secure cloud solutions tailored to their public and private cloud environments. Businesses will rely on backup and recovery tools provided by the cloud service provider (CSP). Sometimes they extend the same on-premises tools to the cloud. Moving data to the cloud demands a strategic and nuanced approach. Enterprises must prioritise secure data management across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. 

As organisations orchestrate their journey to the cloud, secure data management plays a vital role. Comprehensive cloud solutions like encryption, access controls, monitoring, and secure data posture management are critical.

Cloud Data Security

Understanding Cyber Resiliency

Cyber resilience is a linchpin in ensuring business continuity and strengthening cyber defenses. This approach includes preventing data loss, strengthening cyber defenses, and enabling fast recovery. This helps you prepare for cyber incidents and plans for confident recovery from cyber threats. Ultimately, it helps you maintain business continuity.

It also involves identifying and evaluating potential risks both internal and external. Organisations should conduct thorough risk assessments and create mitigation strategies. This proactive stance not only enhances your preparedness but also aids in prioritizing security measures and resource allocation.

The Imperative for Cloud Solutions 

While cloud providers secure their platforms, the shared responsibility model demands that enterprises take charge of safeguarding the data stored within these applications. Vulnerabilities like accidental deletion, cyberattacks, corruption, and insider threats persist. Without robust cloud security solutions, the loss of critical data can disrupt operations, trigger compliance issues, and harm reputation.

Native backup capabilities in cloud applications offer limited data retention. This can expose businesses to risks. Relying on these capabilities alone, can lead to data loss and hinder regulatory efforts. This necessitates a more comprehensive approach to cloud data backup and recovery solutions.

Craft an Effective Cloud Backup Strategy

Organisations should tailor an effective cloud solution strategy to application requirements. Best practices should include: 

• Regular and redundant data backups

• Audits and Monitoring

• Automated processes

• Secure encryption for data in-transit and at-rest 

• Multi-factor authentication

Compliance with data regulations like the Privacy Act and the Notifiable Data Breaches scheme is crucial. Effective cloud data protection should align with regulatory guidelines. It should also include vendor due diligence, incident response, and disaster recovery planning as part of the strategy. 

To shield sensitive information, companies must adhere to data privacy laws such as the Privacy Act and the Notifiable Data Breaches scheme. These regulations safeguard individuals' privacy rights and mandate businesses to ensure data security. The upcoming Cyber Security Strategy 2023-2030 will fortify the nation's cybersecurity posture by establishing six cyber shields, uniting citizens, businesses, and government entities.

Unique security challenges arise from cloud-based applications. Implementing strong access controls, regular data backups, and continuous monitoring prepares for threats. Due diligence in understanding the shared responsibility mitigates these risks. 

Continuous Improvement

Regular review, updates, testing, and a focus on continuous improvement are critical to effective cloud solutions. It ensures adaptability to evolving risks and industry best practices. It also helps minimize downtime and data loss. 

Safeguarding your cloud environment demands proactive planning, testing, and refining your strategy. Robust protection measures not only fortify data security but also contribute to long-term operational stability and cyber resilience.

Protecting data across multiple clouds is very complex. To manage your hybrid and multi-cloud security, you require a comprehensive cloud solution. Veritas is a leader in secure hybrid and multi-cloud data management. Our solutions support over 800 data sources, 1400 storage targets, and over 60 clouds offering flexibility, scalability, and unified management. 

Learn more about protecting your cloud applications in the eBook Guard Your Cloud Data Against Threats.