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Cloud Security Fundamentals: Understanding the Basics

eSecurity Planet

Cloud security fundamentals are the core requirements that ensure data protection, regulatory compliance, and access management in a cloud environment. Understanding cloud security challenges and knowing the cloud security tools available in the market significantly contribute to enhanced cloud security.

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Top Cloud Security Issues: Threats, Risks, Challenges & Solutions

eSecurity Planet

Cloud security issues refer to the threats, risks, and challenges in the cloud environment. To combat these cloud security issues, develop a robust cloud security strategy that addresses all three to provide comprehensive protection. Threats are active attacks that target system weaknesses.

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The advantages and disadvantages of private cloud 

IBM Big Data Hub

The popularity of private cloud is growing, primarily driven by the need for greater data security. Across industries like education, retail and government, organizations are choosing private cloud settings to conduct business use cases involving workloads with sensitive information and to comply with data privacy and compliance needs.

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How to Secure the 5 Cloud Environment Types

eSecurity Planet

Organizations have a variety of options for cloud deployments, each with its own set of capabilities and security challenges. Public Cloud Environments A public cloud architecture is a shared infrastructure hosted by a cloud service provider.

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What Is Hybrid Cloud Security? How it Works & Best Practices

eSecurity Planet

Hybrid cloud security is a framework for protecting data and applications in a computing environment that includes both private and public clouds. It combines on-premises and cloud-based resources to satisfy an organization’s diversified computing demands while ensuring strong security.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 22 – 28 April 2024

IT Governance

Keyboard app vulnerabilities reveal keystrokes to network eavesdroppers Security researchers have identified critical security vulnerabilities in Cloud-based pinyin keyboard apps from Baidu, Inc., Data breached: 4,186,879,104 messages. Honor, Huawei, iFlytek, OPPO, Samsung Electronics, Tencent, Vivo and Xiaomi Technology.

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Public Cloud Security Explained: Everything You Need to Know

eSecurity Planet

Public cloud security refers to protections put in place to secure data and resources in cloud environments shared by multiple users or organizations. Major cloud service providers have generally had good security , so cloud users can be pretty confident in the security of their data and applications if they get their part right.

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