Enterprises adopt cloud solutions as business innovation needs surpass the capabilities of on-premises environments. However, migrating to the cloud introduces new cybersecurity challenges. You need to retain visibility, control and security as you move to hybrid cloud and multicloud environments. At each critical stage of your cloud transformation journey, you need security management to stay ahead of advanced threats.

Cloud security is a set of policies, methods, and technologies that protects the infrastructure, data, and applications that are cloud-based, whether the cloud be private, public, or a hybrid.

Data security in cloud computing is just as important as data security for your on-premises systems. In early cloud computing days, many organizations refrained from moving their applications to the cloud because of the fear of data loss and data leakage. For example, healthcare organizations initially refused to move to the cloud because of the concern over the security of medical records, the privacy of which mandated by the United States’ Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

Fortunately, cloud providers have demonstrated time and again that their cloud security monitoring procedures keep data private and safe. In fact, they are even safer than the security of many on-premises systems – especially if your organization is a small-to-medium business. Cloud providers can hire the best security experts who can stay abreast with modern techniques that compromise data.