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Despite security issues being one of the biggest deterrents of cloud adoption, the technology could help businesses improve their cyber security standards.
This is the view of John Dunn, security editor of Techworld, who believes the technology can actually work as an additional security measure helping to protect your computer if used correctly.
“So all of the traffic that goes in and out of your company will come through a layer that’s run by a cloud company – it will be filtered and looked at,” Dunn said.
“If you’re a bank, for example, one of the big worries is what they call ‘man in the middle’ attacks. A cloud layer between yourself and your customers makes it much harder for man in the middle attacks to occur,” he noted.
With the cloud layer inserted between the company and the customer, it makes it much more difficult for hackers with malicious intent to force themselves into the same position.
“The security layer the companies have, the security software and products they buy and the infrastructure they run means there is a real move to actually buy that as a service.”
‘Man in the middle’ and Trojan attacks are two of the primary ways that hackers can access bank transactions to steal or delete data. Dunn suggests that cloud computing could very well be the answer to these threats.
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