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Cloud Security Blog Series

#CiscoCloud#Intercloud

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Evelyn de SouzaData Center and Cloud Product

MarketingCisco Security Technology Group

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Data Security Through the Cloud #CiscoCloud

31% of security professionals say that the biggest risk associated with cloud infrastructure services is, “privacy concerns associated with sensitive and/or regulated data stored and/or processed by a cloud infrastructure provider.”Source: ESG

Is the combination of cloud computing and mobility a perfect storm of security threats?

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• 16 billion web requests are inspected every day through Cisco Cloud Web Security

• 93 billion emails are inspected every day by Cisco’s hosted email solution

• 200,000 IP addresses are evaluated daily

• 400,000 malware samples are evaluated daily

• 33 million endpoint files are evaluated every day by FireAMP

• 28 million network connects are evaluated every day by FireAMP

Source: Cisco Annual Security Report

Did You Know:

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The conversation is no longer if you’ll be attacked, but when. And will you be prepared?

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Drivers for Managed Security and What To Look For in a Cloud Provider

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An important driver in mitigating risk and increasing security is to ask the right questions.

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• What information does the provider make publicly available about their security processes & services?

• What assurances can they provide around secure data handling & storage?

• How often do they perform audits & what type of audits do they perform?

• What kind of physical security does my cloud-hosting partner maintain?

• Do they have customer references who you can speak with?

When evaluating cloud service providers, IT leaders need to ask:

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With more traffic going through the cloud, security solutions that also rely on the cloud can quickly and easily analyze this traffic and gain from this supplemental information.

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Bring Your Own Service: Why It Needs to be on InfoSec’s Radar

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Generation Y users are increasingly willing to skirt such company policies to use their own devices and cloud services.Source: 2013 Fortinet Survey

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How should IT & InfoSec teams manage their company’s data when hundreds of instances of new cloud deployments happen each month without their knowledge?

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1)Acknowledge that everything is in the cloud or being moved to the cloud

2)Focus on securing your organization’s lifeblood

3)Harness Big Data for actionable security decision making

4)Cloud security is not a single “amorphous” model – choose carefully.

Considerations for how to institute control around cloud security:

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