Cloud security and its challenges

- [Instructor] I'd now like to discuss cloud security and some of its challenges. First, know that cloud security is a simple process that many people make more complicated than needed. The basic steps are to protect, detect, respond, and track. Let's cover each here as an introduction to cloud security and the challenges that you'll face when dealing with networking. Protect is a passive process because we set up systems to defend against threats. This is by using whatever security mechanisms are best for that defense. These may include data encryption for instance. How do you find and stop attacks on your cloud-based system, including the network? The security system must be smart enough to consistently monitor things that are occurring, have already happened or about to happen. Then raise the alarm that a breach attempt is underway and prompt the system to take evasive action. This is what the concept of detect is all about. How to respond to detecting an attack or an emerging…