As cybercrime incidents increase, organizations face unique challenges in preventing data breaches and mitigating identity risks.
Azure cloud security platform can help organizations protect their data and identities while simplifying compliance reporting. You can find more information about potential threats on websites like sonraisecurity.com/solutions/azure-and-sonrai-dig/.
The right cloud security platform helps organizations provide a comprehensive set of security services that can be deployed quickly and easily. These services include identity and access management, threat protection, data loss prevention, and secure web gateways. It also helps prevent identity risks to your cloud infrastructure. Here’s how:
What Are Identity Risks in a Cloud Environment?
In a cloud environment, identities can be compromised in several ways. One common way is through phishing attacks.
Phishing attackers send fraudulent emails that appear to be from legitimate organizations such as banks or other credible organizations. The email requests the receiver to click on a link or open an attachment. When the recipient does this, they inadvertently download malware that gives the attacker access to their computer or network.
Another way identities can be compromised is by credential theft. Attackers can steal usernames and passwords by installing malware on a victim’s computer or by intercepting login information as it is transmitted. Once they have this information, attackers can log in to cloud applications and steal data or install ransomware.
How Azure Cloud Security Platform Helps Address Identity Risks
Azure cloud security platform helps organizations address identity risks in many ways. They include:
1. Preventing Phishing Attacks
A cloud security platform helps prevent phishing attacks by displaying a warning banner before sensitive transactions. It makes it challenging for attackers to phish customers by asking them to reveal personal information in an email response, text message, or webpage. The banner will ask the user if they are confident they want to continue with the transaction.
2. Limiting Credential Theft
In a cloud environment, identities can be stolen using software that captures keystrokes as they are typed into the computer. To prevent this, a cloud security platform encrypts sensitive information sent to and from resources in the cloud. It helps ensure data remains confidential even if an attacker intercepts it as it moves through the network.
3. Removing Threats
Threat protection can help guard against all types of threats, including ransomware. A cloud security platform provides real-time malware detection by using advanced analytics to compare new files against a vast world of information about harmful software.
If it detects anything suspicious, it stops the file from running until it has been determined whether or not it is safe.
4. Enhancing Compliance Reporting
A cloud security platform can help organizations automate compliance reporting with industry regulations such as HIPAA and PCI DSS. It provides predefined reports that collect information about data activity, user activity, and threat activity. It reduces the time it takes to generate a report and makes it easier to share with customers and regulatory authorities.
5. Integrating With Cloud Services
A cloud security platform can integrate with several cloud services. They include Office 365, Salesforce, and Box. It allows organizations to add security controls such as encryption and authentication to applications in the last two. It also helps them comply with regulations such as HIPAA and PCI DSS.
6. Identity and Access Management
One of the most critical cloud security services is identity and access management (IAM). It helps organizations securely manage user access to resources in the cloud. It does this by controlling who has access to which applications and data and ensuring that only authorized users can sign in to applications.
IAM also helps protect against credential theft and phishing attacks. It does this by enforcing multi-factor authentication (MFA). MFA needs users to provide something in addition to their username and password when they sign in. It helps ensure the person signing in is actually who they say they are and not an impostor or attacker trying to steal a user’s credentials.
In addition to MFA, IAM can also help organizations manage their passwords. It does this by allowing administrators to set password policies that include length, complexity, and expiration requirements. It helps ensure passwords are strong and less likely to be compromised.
7. Eradicating Data Breaches
To prevent data breaches, cloud security platforms can monitor for suspicious behavior that indicates a breach has occurred or may be in progress. It does this by detecting anomalous activity patterns that indicate someone is attempting to access data they shouldn’t have access to. Abnormal behavior may include unusual requests for access to resources or access by users who don’t usually need it.
Azure cloud security platform helps organizations protect their data and identities while simplifying compliance reporting. It can help you comply with new regulations such as GDPR while helping to prevent cyberattacks such as phishing, credential theft, and ransomware.
While there is no longer a question about whether or not to adopt cloud technologies, it is vital to select a platform that provides the security you need.
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