Cloud migration presents many preventable risks for data loss and leakage. Many businesses are hesitant to migrate to the cloud due to these concerns – with 56% citing security as a considerable concern.
A large part of this perceived risk is handing data to third-party companies in the form of cloud vendors. Intuitively, this makes sense – wouldn’t on-premise solutions provide better security?
In reality, cloud providers take security and compliance very seriously – and have numerous safeguards in place to protect your data.
In many cases, it’s actually easier for criminals to breach your on-premises servers than launching an attack on a cloud service provider like Azure, AWS or Google Cloud.
Moreover, cloud services have tools to automate compliance procedures and ensure tight access permissions to minimise insider threats.
So, is the cloud migration process risk-free? No. The major threat is indeed in the migration phase – as any of your data may be intercepted if your migration process is insecure.
How can we avoid this? An MSP will check your migration procedure before you go ahead and ensure that your sensitive data is protected from attackers and that you have data redundancies in place to prevent loss.
