Given that hybrid clouds can offer huge financial and operational benefits for companies, it comes at no surprise that they have exploded in popularity in the last few years. Rather than needing to build infrastructure to withstand occasional bursts of heavy data usage, companies can offload some of this data to public cloud offerings, paying for it only when they need it. By placing some of their data in a public cloud, companies also ensure that will still be able to continue to conduct business during an internal company failure or disaster.
In general, switching to a hybrid cloud model has huge benefits for companies, but it does pose some potential new security risks. While many companies have valid concerns about the privacy risks that are involved in transmitting information across a public domain, companies can surmount these concerns by taking extra precautions in security protocol. Here are the five best tips to ensure hybrid security.
- Security at the endpoints
- Multiple backups
- Encryption
- Risk assessment
- Management and monitoring