Cloud
Systems:
- Cloud system is a system which helps in eliminating the need
for any kind of hardware or make use of any kind of software while
the users can quickly add or remove the users as per the
requirements.
- Also, the users can access the virtual desktops from multiple
devices or the web browsers which will help in maintaining the
procedure for working with the workspace from anywhere,
anytime.
- The cloud systems have an ability to store data independent of
the location and machines. They can also provide data whenever and
wherever it is needed so as to make the data omnipresent.
- The cloud-based system is based on to establish risk management
processes and even procedures to provide a mission-critical
service. The provision of the services is widespread.
- During any kind of disaster or recovery, the systems are up and
can run without any problem. The setup can be resumed in order to
balance the use of business continuity.
- The plan will also consider various events of procedures during
the disaster and must be managed according to the
requirements.
- Virtualization has always been the key to business continuity
and this is the thing that can be easily done with the help of the
cloud systems. The most authentic and effective design will be
acknowledged while the disaster has occurred and there would be a
certain level of stable backup operational.
- The cloud will provide us with the cost-efficient and most
scalable methods of the computing for the type of industry you are
been doing on a certain study. Cloud has recently become the most
popular alternative for enterprise disaster recovery.
- Also, the AWS workspace makes use of the two ENI (Elastic
Network Interface) which are being used by both management
and streaming(eth0) and primary (eth1). Both of these have
unique tasks to perform.
- The client applications also make use of HTTPS over port 443
for all the authentication-related information and also making use
of the cloud services securely and privately in case of such
needs.
Hence, this is how the AWS cloud systems work and provide us
more coverage over the database and similar technologies.
Potential Risks
in Cloud-based systems:
There are also some potential risks that must be focused on
while making use of cloud services. They are listed below:
- The potential risks in the cloud are been transferred into the
cloud providers using the hardware-independent virtualization
technologies that are nowadays a trend in disaster recovery.
- The cloud personnel is known for designing the cloud for such a
disaster recovery and making the cloud hinge of the most effective
designs of the enterprises IT architectures.
Hence, this is how can one transfer the potential risks to the
cloud providers.
Risk Assessment
& Threat Vulnerability:
Nowadays, companies have moved on to the Agile or Rapid
Application Development SDLC(Software Development Life Cycle) which
has been resulting in reducing the development timeframe. Now,
starting with the risk assessment for the cloud-based systems, here
we go,
- Collecting Information:
- The collection of information is one of the major parts that
plays in the security of the organization. The URL of the target
must be accessible to gain information.
- Information caught in wrong hands can turn out to be chaos for
any organization. Hence, information must always be safeguarded
with levels of security.
- Risk Profiling:
- Checking the website for each and every type of risks/threats
is a very important task and must be carried on with each and every
module of the organization's availability in the internet
space.
- There must be things carried out like:
- Automated threat scanning
- Penetration Testing
- Black Box Testing of the source codes
- Assigning Risk Ratings to the Security Flaws
- Reporting to higher Authorities
- Updating Technology:
- In the current world scenario, it has become very important to
update the technologies that are been actively used and must be
balanced accordingly.
- The use of older versions will come with a bunch of
vulnerabilities and threats along with the destruction of certain
aspects of the organization.
- Application Fingerprinting:
- In an organization, there are certain things that must be
checked for the known vulnerabilities and exposures. If there, one
must always keep it the priority to overcome certain threats in
order to run the organization smoothly.
- The application fingerprinting consists of different levels of
assessment. Here are some of the different scopes:
- Defining Objectives
- Devising Strategy to overcome threats
- Role-Based Access Control Matrix
- Choosing Appropriate Security Tools
Hence, these are some of the risk and threat
vulnerability for the cloud systems.
Actions For
Effective Risk Management Capabilities in Cloud
Systems:
The actions that one must take in order to make the risk
management effectiveness and up to the mark in management
capabilities for the cloud-based systems are as follows:
- Preparing:
- One must always prepare for the risks and also keep the systems
checked for the vulnerabilities.
- The best approach is to plan and make changes to the system as
soon as the updates are launched to a particular system.
- The planning must work accordingly so that the risks are being
minified at the user's end.
- Verifying & Eliciting:
- Verifying each & every potential risk in the system and if
found critical then eliciting the risk will ensure that the risks
are eliminated properly.
- The elimination of the risks is also being done on a certain
level so that there are no further risks remaining in the system to
check.
- Analyzing gaps & Evaluating:
- Analyzing for risks is the major activities that must be taken
on the developing end because if a risk is analyzed in the earlier
stage it is less destructive for the system.
- Evaluating the level of the risks also become important for the
users so as to make the risks less effective on the systems.
Hence, these are actions that could lead to the development of
effective risk management capabilities.
Guidelines For
Security Policies:
For the security policies, there are certain things to be always
taken into consideration, we will discuss all of them as we dive in
deep. So here we go,
- Knowing The Risks:
- It is the most important part while creating security policies
to know what risks are there in the system.
- How the information is been manipulated at the client as well
as the server end. Hence, making the process more secure as data is
the part for which security is always compromised.
- Knowing The Wrongs Done By Others:
- Knowing that the organizations who have been gone through the
certain risks which reside in your system. Learning from the
mistakes made by others is always the most effective way of setting
guidelines.
- The guidelines to the security policy consist of the most
probable wrong things that each and every organization with similar
risks are been doing.
- Keeping Legal requirements in mind:
- Many times organizations completely forget about the legal
requirements that are been required by the officials.
- Hence, keeping the legal jurisdictions, data holdings and the
location in which you reside is also most important.
- Recently, this has been the case with Facebook's most
controversial data theft.
- Setting the level of security:
- The level of the security that is been planned must always be
kept in mind with the level of risks that are been residing in the
system.
- Excessive security in the system can also cause hindrance to
the smooth business operations and hence, overprotecting oneself
can also be a cause to the problem.
- Training Employees Accordingly:
- The training of the employees in a certain part of the security
is also a major part of the security policy as the employees are
the one who makes mistake.
- So, if one trains their employee in such an order that they
minimize the mistakes that are been made it will become great for
the system.
Hence, these are the guidelines for creating an effective and
functional security policy that every organization dealing with the
cloud-based systems must develop in order to stay safe and
secure.