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IT support in Houston can be essential in helping you remain cutting-edge in terms of cloud infrastructure. Like clouds in the sky move from one side of the horizon to the other, shifting all the while, the technological cloud is in continual flux. The largest cloud server arrays are constituted of over a million servers. Competitiveness among such large businesses is to be expected, and this means that where one falls behind, the other surges ahead, only to be overtaken by its competition later on. Ultimately, this means continuing innovations for the cloud, but it also means new vulnerabilities may exist where previously there were none. If you want to secure your data, you need to understand what the cloud environment is and how to ensure it keeps your data as safe as you expect. Several strategies to this effect include:
- Always knowing where your data is in the cloud
- Classification of your data
- Monitoring as continuously as possible
Always Knowing Where Your Data is in the Cloud
IT support in Houston can help you to properly detect where your data is at in the cloud and what boundaries it should be protected with. Increasing complexity often requires increased security, as well as backup methods. If you don’t have contingencies in place for the worst-case scenario, you can bet it will happen at the worst possible moment. The right MSP can help you identify strategies that will work to protect data on a daily basis, as well as strategies for data recovery if some underhanded cybercriminal strategies force you to use data mirroring as a contingency plan while you reboot your primary system.
Classification of Your Data
To protect your data in the cloud most effectively, you need to know what is what. For example, infrastructural data, relating to the operations of your building’s environmental controls, is certainly important, but not as important as proprietary formulas relating to certain engineering paradigms or products specific to your company. You need to classify your cloud data and apply maximum protections to that which is more sensitive, and basic protections to that which isn’t.
Monitoring as Continuously as Possible
You always want some sort of monitoring solution characterizing your cloud-based data. One of the best ways to acquire this is through an MSP that has dedicated professionals who can periodically check your information. You can do this yourself, but you’re likely going to experience greater advantage in this regard if you use an organization that knows where common threats are and where to look for them. Anomalous activity is a big indicator of underhanded cybercriminals looking to exploit data which isn’t theirs. Sometimes, it can be hard to tell what is and isn’t anomalous. With the right MSP, you can secure things in a way that is simple and more cost-effective than onsite solutions which must learn about new cloud paradigms in a way unnatural to regular operations. With an MSP, keeping up-to-date is their operational core.
More Comprehensive Cloud Security
IT support in Houston through ICS can help you identify and protect data, monitoring it to ensure security. Contact us now for top-tier cloud computing solutions on which you can rely.
Further reading
ICS is a Texas-based 40-year-old technology company specializing in Managed IT, VoIP, Video Conferencing and Video Surveillance solutions for US and International businesses. ICS has over 4000 regional installations and specializes in multi-site businesses between 25 and 2500 employees. ICS’s customers enjoy the experience of ICS’s Total Care program which provides clients flat fee services with obsolescence and growth protection. Whether a customer elects to deploy their IT, Video Conferencing or VoIP in the cloud or on the customer’s premise, ICS can provide a full turn-key solution for our clients under one flat monthly fee.