What are the preventive measures one can take to avoid data breach in the cloud? Many well-known companies all over the world today have suffered from data breaches that have cost them heavily.
The number of data breaches is increasing rapidly hence everyone should take care that they are not the next in line for such breaches.
People who use cloud as their computing model may feel that they are above all others in the security aspect.
But it is better even for them to prepare themselves in advance to avoid any such mishaps.
The survey figures conducted by govtech.
com in this case are pretty appalling.
66% of the people opined that using cloud services in their organization reduces their ability to keep information confidential.
62% opines that the cloud services used in the organizations are not in line with the required security updates.
The above stats call for some action.
Below listed are a few ways in which clouds can reduce their risk of data breach: (Venturebeat.
com)

• Educating users to move towards high quality apps: Users should be educated to use apps that are customized to their needs.
  This way they will understand if there are any loop holes in the app during their usage.
  When using apps that operate on a wide range there is a chance users can miss problems in the app as they are not aware of its full functionality.
  Users can ask their vendors for their best fit app or switch clouds to find their best fit.
  
• Reduce risk by allowing block access to you apps: Use granular policies to avoid damage in the case of a data breach.
  Starting the blocking process with apps critical to your business move onto the lesser critical apps such as HR apps.
  You should keep your apps clearly defined in order to use this process.
  
• Understand and monitor user activities: To provide better protection to cloud data, one must study the user activities.
  Each user on the cloud is provided with certain privileges.
  Depending on their privileges user can read, write or share data.
  Understanding these activities will help in providing better security.
  
• Know where all your data is being used: Before trying to protect the data on the cloud one must understand in what all places the data is being used.
  This may include uploading or downloading of new data and existing data in apps.
  Understanding where all data exists one will know where to put security in place.