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What is the most common cloud security vulnerability?
For users with privileged administration control, lack of multi-factor authentication (MFA) is the most common cloud security vulnerability. Any role mapped to a cloud environment should have MFA protection.
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What are the key areas of cloud security?
There are five important cloud security areas
- Access and Identity Management.
- Securing Data in the Cloud.
- Securing the Operating System.
- Protecting the Network Layer.
- Managing Security Monitoring, Alerting, Audit Trail, and Incident Response.
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What are cloud application security threats?
Many threats can exploit a system, such as misconfigurations, weakness in identity management, unsecured API, or unpatched software. The main threat is a lack of cloud security strategies that can uncover many cybersecurity threats.
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What are cloud application security best practices?
The most common cloud application security best practices include a complete focus and understanding of the adversary, risk reduction, ensuring that a cloud security policy, framework, and architecture are developed and implemented, and consistently monitoring to improve your visibility into the attack surface.
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How should your organization approach cloud security?
Cloud security will vary for each organization. Best practices from the National Institute of Standards and Technology can be followed to sustain and secure your cloud infrastructure. After initiating those best practices, the next best way to approach cloud security is to utilize a cloud security testing service to help you proactively identify, protect, detect, respond and recover.
