Blog Written by: Danish Wadhwa from www.flydot.biz

In previous blog posts, we’ve talked a lot about how important it is to be aware of how secure your firewall really is. But you may be wondering one thing: what does it even mean to be “security aware?”

There are quite a few cloud based applications,  such as iCloud, twitter, facebook, that are known to be easily hacked, especially with the wave of hacks against celebrity accounts.  So it is very important to take these three steps and measurements to ensure protection on all of your Cloud Accounts.

  

These trends are practical things that will help you keep your network safer with improved defense-in-depth.

1. A move from being defensive to a more proactive approach to IT security, for instance application firewalls that actually work and are easy to deploy.
   
   
2. Machine learning that *works* spreads out to legacy endpoint security tools, and is able to do real-time payload analysis to prevent ransomware attacks.
3. You will finally get affordable and smart enough network traffic analysis tools that will show if your network has been penetrated, combined with:
4. Platforms that will show you understandable threat intelligence with analytics and reporting that will dramatically shorten the "dwell time" of hackers in your network.

In a recent study, the Ponemon Institute interviewed 3,476 IT professionals and IT security practitioners from the US and around the globe. It was discovered that 73 percent of respondents find cloud-computing and cloud-based services vital to their organization’s operations. 54 percent however, said that their companies don’t have a proactive approach to security. As cloud-computing becomes more useful and popular, it is critical to pay attention to the security of these cloud services, especially when the customer data stored in the cloud is the data most vulnerable to hackers. According to the report, “protection of data in the cloud is important but not practiced.” Security breaches result in a lack of customer trust, which leads to a decline in revenue.