Skip to main content
  • Industry Solutions
    • Managed Service Providers
    • Enterprise Solutions
    • Developers & Startups
    • Healthcare
    • Trading and Financial
      • Chicago Managed Trading Servers
      • Trading and Financial Colocation: Chicago & New Jersey
    • IBM AS/400 and iSeries Users
  • Support
    • Register
    • View Tickets
    • Submit a Ticket
    • Knowledgebase
    • News
  • Steadfast Blog
  • Steadfast Podcasts
  • Contact Us
Home
  • Call Us
  • Call | 888.281.9449
  • Login
  • Search

This form logs you into your management portal account. To access your help desk account, click here and use the form to the right of the news.

  • Cloud Hosting
    • Cloud Hosting
    • Private Cloud
    • Hybrid Cloud
    • Public Cloud
    • Cloud Storage
      • Secure File Share
      • Wasabi Cloud Storage
    • Virtual Data Center Platform
  • Managed Hosting
    • Bare Metal Dedicated Servers
      • Deep Learning GPU Dedicated Servers
      • Linux Dedicated Servers
      • Windows Dedicated Servers
    • Virtual Private Servers
    • Data Center Colocation
      • Managed Colocation
      • Chicago: 350 E Cermak
      • Chicago: 725 S Wells
      • Edison, New Jersey
    • Security & Compliance
      • Managed Firewall
      • SSL VPN
      • DDoS Protection
      • Email Security
  • Backup & Disaster Recovery
    • Backup
    • Disaster Recovery
    • Veeam Backup & Replication
    • Veeam Cloud Connect
    • Wasabi Cloud Storage
  • Why Steadfast
    • Why Steadfast?
    • About Steadfast
      • Our History
      • News and Press
    • Data Centers & Network
      • Our Data Centers
      • Our Network
      • Network Test
      • Peering Policy
    • Customer Stories
    • Service Level Agreement
  • Industry Solutions
    • Managed Service Providers
    • Enterprise Solutions
    • Developers & Startups
    • Healthcare
    • Trading and Financial
      • Chicago Managed Trading Servers
      • Trading and Financial Colocation: Chicago & New Jersey
    • IBM AS/400 and iSeries Users
  • Support
    • Register
    • View Tickets
    • Submit a Ticket
    • Knowledgebase
    • News
  • Steadfast Blog
  • Steadfast Podcasts
  • Contact Us
Close
Return to All Blog Posts
How To Work With A Cloud Hosting Provider To Achieve Optimal Security

How To Work With A Cloud Hosting Provider To Achieve Optimal Security

March 13, 2018 in
The Cloud

In the modern IT environment, security and privacy are of critical importance to cloud vendors and their clients. Security is a partnership in any infrastructure hosting scenario: both the vendor and the client must do their part to keep data safe. Where exactly the division of responsibility lies depends in large part on the cloud vendor and the services they offer. Mainstream enterprise cloud vendors like AWS and Azure do little to help ordinary businesses build secure systems: the underlying infrastructure may be secure, but given the complexity of infrastructure hosting it’s all too easy for a cloud user to make a mistake that exposes them to unnecessary risk.

Steadfast Simplicity Clouds are secure by default, hosted in world-class SSAE-16-certified data centers with rigorous physical, network, and server security. But the defining difference between Steadfast Simplicity Clouds and competing platforms is the range of managed services available to business users: our Steadfast Sentinel Managed Security services include the Core Security Bundle, which provides a range of security services such as standard firewalls and web application firewalls, vulnerability scanning, disk encryption and key management, identity and access management, network monitoring, and configuration change management.

Steadfast Sentinel Managed Security also offers bundles for HIPAA, PCI DSS, and FISMA compliance, making it much easier for cloud users to deploy compliant applications on flexible public or private cloud platforms.

The Cloud User’s Responsibility

Although Steadfast’s Simplicity Clouds and Sentinel Managed Services simplify the creation of secure applications and services, cloud users have a responsibility to follow common-sense security best practices.

Updates and patch management: The vast majority of last year’s most prominent data leaks and security issues — including the Equifax leak and the NotPetya ransomware attacks — could have been avoided if businesses had patched their software. Every day, companies have data stolen or their servers compromised because they fail to update internet-facing software like content management systems and eCommerce applications. Applying updates in a timely fashion should be a priority for every business.

Authentication and identity management: Controlling access to your cloud servers is key to ensuring they remain secure. Last year, many Linux servers were hacked by simple brute force attacks because administrators used easy-to-guess passwords. Steadfast’s cloud identity and access management tools make managing who has access to your resource much more straightforward, but you have to be careful to properly manage who you give access to and to withdraw access when it’s no longer required.

Backups: Business owners don’t often think of backups as a security issue, but a comprehensive off-site backup is the last line of defense against ransomware attacks and an essential component of disaster recovery and business continuity planning. Steadfast’s Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Services provide encrypted, up-to-date backups to dedicated backup servers.

There are two major causes of IT security disasters: businesses that don’t have the expertise to properly secure their cloud infrastructure and businesses that don’t make security a priority. Steadfast Simplicity Clouds and Sentinel Security Services provide a solution to both problems: we have the expertise to build secure cloud infrastructure platforms for businesses, and our low-cost managed security services provide comprehensive turnkey security solutions whatever your business’s needs.

Steadfast’s cloud security services are available for our full range of cloud platforms, including private cloud, public cloud, and custom hybrid clouds.

Share This
facebook twitter email compact

Comments (0)

Leave a Comment

Get an image next to your comment by visiting Gravatar.com and uploading a profile photo that links to your address.

Search the Blog

Categories

backup
(1)
bare metal
(1)
Business Talk
(23)
Chicago
(11)
Chicago colocation
(1)
Cloud
(34)
cloud backup
(1)
cloud services
(2)
colocation
(4)
colocation services
(1)

Archives

  • August 2022 (1)
  • March 2022 (3)
  • October 2021 (1)
  • January 2021 (1)
  • July 2020 (1)
  • June 2020 (1)
  • April 2020 (1)
  • March 2020 (1)
  • August 2019 (1)
  • July 2019 (1)

Follow Us

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn
  • RSS Feed
  • 312.602.2689
  • ColoHouse Sales
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • LinkedIn

Services

  • Cloud Hosting
  • Managed Hosting
  • Backup & Disaster Recovery

Solutions By Industry

  • Enterprise Solutions
  • Trading & Financial
  • Healthcare
  • Developers & Startups
© 2023 Steadfast
  • Log In
  • Site Map
  • Legal Info & Privacy Policy