The Security Advantages Of Cloud Based Solutions

Being able to create fool proof security for hardware systems, hack proof networks, etc. is all part of building a resilient technology layer. Organizations need to account for disasters not only at their own location but also outside of themselves to analyze the effect of disasters at partner organizations. For example, a disruption at an ISP could render a complete outage to accessing the internet and the internal servers to be available to the outside world.

In the event of data corruption or physical breach of ABC Healthcare, there will still be an untouched backup of ABC Healthcare’s data. If a virus or worm attacks ABC Healthcare’s network, the offsite backups will be used to restore the network to a point before the network was breached. ABC Healthcare’s SIEM, IDS, IPS will be used to hopefully notify the IT department of any incidents in a timely manner. In any case, for any possible incident we must develop and Incident Response (IR) plan. The Computer Security Incident Handling Guide has been developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to be the foundation on which an IR should be developed. In accordance with NIST, an IT department should develop a plan by developing plan to ensure that that plan is executed in its entirety. Communication guidelines should be established for internal and external communications, essential team members should be identified, establishing what services the IR team will be responsible for, and exactly how the IR team will be trained to respond to an attack, failure, or accident (Cichonski, Millar, Grance, & Scarfone, 2012). NIST recommends developing IRs for common attack vectors such as viruses or worms that target private health

One of the goals for large companies is to become a company with global expansion. The world still exists a lot of countries that do not have the technological and access to the internet for economic or political reasons. Such as in Africa and Asia continents have lowest internet users. In these countries, the cloud service is limited because without the internet not service, no service, no possibility of business expansion to these countries.

While there have been some high-profile cloud-based outages, in many cases, cloud-based services are more reliable, affordable, and secure than on-site data centers. A cloud provider has the expertise and resources to build a more secure, resilient, and reliable data center than a typical small- or medium-sized business. For example, InfoSystems offers production-ready cloud solutions with a baseline Tier 3 data center, a higher-level SLA than large-scale providers, and a hands-on approach to cloud migration.

Cloud computing describes anything involving the delivery of hosted services over the Internet. The service takes it names from the cloud symbol used to represent the Internet in flowcharts and diagrams. Due to significant innovations in virtualization and distributed computing, along with improved access to high-speed Internet and a weak economy, interest in cloud computing has increased substantially in recent years (TechTarget, 2007).

Organizations considering cloud-based services must understand the associated risks, defining acceptable use cases and necessary compensating controls before allowing them to be used for regulated or sensitive information. Cloud-computing environments have IT risks in common with any externally provided service. There are also some unique attributes that require risk assessment in areas such as data integrity, recovery and privacy, and an evaluation of legal issues in areas such as e-discovery, regulatory compliance and auditing. Key Findings

Bandwidth issues relate to the user interface and authentication. Costs and reliability include service outages and cost of the service.

Companies can save a lot of money in their investment into cloud computing technologies that can help organizations take the burden of acquisition of servers, software, and people that are needed to stand up enterprise services, shared technology solutions, and deployment of customized or custom off the shelf solutions that are needed to support mission requirements of the enterprise.These solutions that are normally performed "in-house" within the boundaries of the organization can now be performed by outside vendors that specialize in niche technologies allowing them to provide cheaper solutions to their customers. These vendors have the resources, servers, software, and infrastructure in place that are needed to provide a specialized service to an organization. Companies end up saving more money because they do not have to do all the work that is required to set up the service, they just sign up with the vendor and outsource the service to the third-party that manages the technology that is delivered to their clients.

Another disadvantage of cloud computing is that companies are no longer in control of their own data despite the fact that the data centers are very secure. When companies move to the cloud, they have to hand over the data to the cloud host company. However, this situation is improving as all cloud host companies provide 24/7 customer service.

· Cloud-based technologies: Although these can alleviate some support issues, cloud-based systems can also bring up some server and

• Reduced Cost: Cloud technology is paid incrementally (you pay just for what you need), sparing organizations cash in the short run. Cash spared can be utilized for other vital assets.

IT environment is constantly changing and is a competitive market with new products/services being offered on a regular basis, clients/customers want their clients to get back to their feet faster than other competitor. When you meet a disaster- be it a natural disaster or IT related disaster like a hack attempt/system failure, we need to show to our clients/competition the efforts from both having a proper planning as well as technology support to recover fast which will give a confidence to our clients’ that they 're making a "safe" decision by doing business with our organization.

Cloud-based ERP and other enterprise applications allow focusing the resources that would be used to maintain an IT department on other essential areas of business (Castellina et al. 2011). In some cases it mainly results in reduced pressure on internal IT department which can focus on servicing core competencies (IT solutions, 2011).

Cloud computing also allows clients to share IT resources with other companies, reducing costs that are related to purchasing licensed software and servers. In addition to basic cloud hosting services, many providers also include cloud-based data backup storage and recovery services that can be used to add an extra layer of security and disaster preparation to your organization. Other services that can save money and benefit your business include hosted application exchanges, desktop services, software as a service (SaaS) and hardware as a services (HaaS), as well as other solutions and options.

The first advantage of cloud computing is the variety of cloud models. There are three types of deployment models used in the everyday; they are the following: public, hybrid, and private. Public cloud is accessed by anyone on the internet through web applications and services. The hybrid cloud contains many inside and outside developers used by many businesses. Lastly, the private cloud is services only offered on a private network where no one outside the network can access. This model is safer because the cloud is not open to data breaches (compared to a public cloud).