How to Secure Your Cloud Data with Rules-based Engine – Opcito

Cloud computing offers scalable on-demand services to consumers with greater flexibility and lesser infrastructure investment. Since cloud services are delivered using classical network protocols and formats over the Internet, implicit vulnerabilities existing in these protocols as well as, threats introduced by newer architectures raise many security and privacy concerns. There are many questions that arise as to whether a cloud is secure enough. There exist numerous threats, like insecure interfaces and APIs, malicious insider attacks, data loss and leakage, account or service hijacking, unknown risk profile, etc. If cloud service provider relies on weak set of APIs, variety of security issues will be raised related to confidentiality, integrity, availability and accountability.A malicious insider can easily obtain passwords, cryptographic keys and files, causing various types of fraud, damage or theft of information and misuse of IT resources.