What is Cloud Server Security? Key Threats & Challenges

What Is Cloud Server Security?

Cloud server security uses different tools, policies and methods to guard virtual servers placed in the cloud. Servers tend to support important business operations, store vital records and link to multiple internal and outside parties.

Cloud servers are different from on-premises servers, as all they are hosted on CSP’s shared infrastructure, for example, AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud. As a result, both the provider and the customer have roles to play in security: the provider handles the core security and the customer looks after anything extra they deploy. It consists of operating systems, applications, particular configurations, access controls and data.

Core Objectives of Cloud Server Security:

• Keep all unauthorized parties from accessing confidential information kept or worked on in the cloud.

• Guarantee that data and applications are not modified by anyone with malicious intent

• Keep the system up and running during both regular and attempted Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks.

• Ensure you are compliant with rules like PCI DSS, HIPAA and GDPR