Cloud Providers

Cyber Security for Cloud Providers

With the continued growth of cloud services from companies like AWS, Microsoft Azure, IBM, Verizon, Rackspace, Alibaba and dozen others, Privileged Access Management enables the providers themselves to securely manage their own infrastructure, while also providing secure access management services to their customers. As more and more enterprises and businesses move to “Everything as a Service” models, the value of elasticity, scalability and agility of the cloud is well proven, but the benefits of cloud can be wiped out with a single breach that leads to data loss and reputational damage as evidenced in recent mass events. Clouds are made up of many components, and many organizations use multiple clouds – private, public, hybrid and multi – and are trusting the cloud service providers to protect mission critical applications, data and systems. Privileged access to cloud components must be included, ensuring only authorized individuals can access Management Consoles, Command Line Interfaces (CLIs), Cloud APIs, assets and workloads. Legacy approaches to roles, permissions and policies are no longer able to keep up with the dynamic nature of cloud, which is why adopting a cloud-native secure access management solution like the one Kron Technologies has pioneered is the way to go. The inherent nature of cloud elasticity means “events” occur with great volume and velocity during any given day, when tens of thousands of accesses can be spun up and torn down in 24 hours. A well-defined and centralized secure access management solution, integrated between the enterprise and their cloud provider, is the most effective way to ensure both are protected.