More and more enterprise organizations are planning and deploying into cloud platforms. This trend is occurring despite organizations’ historical push-back on cloud services claiming that they are less secure than private on-premises data centers. Even though there is evidence to suggest that cloud application attacks are on the rise, there are best practice methods to secure cloud services.
On one hand, internal data center services may be tucked nice and neat behind the corporate perimeter firewall, there is evidence that many enterprises do not secure their systems adequately. On the other hand, even though a cloud server may be out-of-site and virtualized in a hyperscale multi-tenant data center, patching and solid discipline can make them secure.
