5 Reasons the Cloud is More Secure Than On-Premise

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5 Reasons the Cloud is More Secure than On-Premise

The cloud offers unique security capabilities that on-premise data centers just can’t provide including greater management, encryption and access. Over 90% of companies are currently using the cloud but many of them are still not convinced that the cloud is more secure than their on-premise data centers. Here are the top 5 reasons why the cloud is more secure than on-premise:

Every company is different, but they can all benefit from the highly secure data management tools offered by the cloud. The cloud can help businesses of all sizes reduce the complexity of their security solutions while also improving their risk posture. Cloud service providers invest heavily in continuous data protection infrastructure and the cloud’s ability to scale means that scaling security is also easy. Moving to the cloud is the smart way to protect your data and boost your revenue. To learn more about moving your organization to the cloud, fill out the below Cloud Acceleration Assessment to speak to a BDO Digital consultant.

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Through 2020, public cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) workloads will suffer at least 60% fewer security incidents than those in traditional data centers.

The cloud allows easy access to stronger identity controls and hardening within your Identity and Access environment. Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) have developed superior authentication and access control systems.

1. Security Management

60%

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By 2025, 99% of failures in cloud security will be due to user error and not failures of the cloud.

Implementing cloud-based solutions for your business is certain to bring a higher standard of security than your in-house IT team or a locally managed system can achieve. CSPs have the expertise to provide a secure environment for your data.

2. Higher Standards

99%

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70% of consumers indicated that they would avoid businesses following a security breach.

70%

Robust data encryptions within cloud-based security systems have substantially reduced the possibilities of data breaches by offering a layered approach that consists of security intelligence, key management and secure access controls. Companies can choose which users have access to the cloud.

3. Data Encryption

The average total cost of a data breach is $3.92 million.

By 2025, 80% of enterprises will have shuttered their physical data centers in favor of cloud infrastructure services, compared to just 10% today.

80%

Unlike most of the known environments, CSPs have incredibly high standards and rigor for enforcing those standards for physical access controls. CSPs use anonymity, replication, and encryption to protect your data.

4. Physical Access

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Microsoft fends off 7 trillion cyberthreats per day and allocates over $1 billion each year to cybersecurity research and development.

CSPs are vigilant about detecting vulnerabilities and conducting patch management using a combination of purpose-built tools, automated and manual penetration testing, software security reviews and external audits. They have teams of ethical hackers attempting to break into their systems so they can find and fix vulnerabilities before attackers do.

5. Vulnerability & Patch Management

Source: Gartner

Source: Amazon Web Services

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Source: Gartner

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