Your Complete Guide to Cloud Security Architecture

In today’s digital world, is your data 100% secure?

As more people and businesses use cloud services to handle their data, vulnerabilities multiply. Around six out of ten companies have moved to the cloud, according to Statista. So keeping data safe is now a crucial concern for most large companies – in 2022, the average data leak cost companies $4.35 million.

This is where cloud security architecture comes in.

Done well, it protects cloud-based data from hackers, leaks, and other online threats. To give you a thorough understanding of cloud security architecture, we’ll look at;

• What cloud security architecture is

• The top risks for your cloud

• How to build your cloud security

• How to choose a CPSM (Cloud Security Posture Management) tool
  

Let’s jump in

What is cloud security architecture?

Let’s start with a definition:

“Cloud security architecture is the umbrella term used to describe all hardware, software and infrastructure that protects the cloud environment and its components, such as data, workloads, containers, virtual machines and APIs.” (source)

Cloud security architecture is a framework to protect data stored or used in the cloud. It includes ways to keep data safe, such as controlling access, encrypting sensitive information, and ensuring the network is secure. The framework has to be comprehensive because the cloud can be vulnerable to different types of attacks. 

Three key principles behind cloud security

Although cloud security sounds complex, it can be broken down into three key ideas. These are known as the ‘CIA triad’, and they are;

• Confidentiality

• Integrity

• Availability