Intrusion detection and prevention

The distributed architecture of a hybrid cloud platform is vulnerable to potential cyber attacks by intruders. Traditional intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDPs) are not very efficient for a hybrid cloud environment. It is there necessary to consider advanced IDPs that are designed for the cloud platform:

IDPs on a hybrid cloud require an efficient, scalable, and virtualization-based approach. Once the organization's data is hosted in the cloud, the IT administrators have limited control over the data and its resources. IDPs thus also become the responsibility of the cloud provider. However, it is necessary that the administration of the IDPs should be the cloud user and not the cloud provider. This gives the organization's IT security team more control over the IDPs and helps in ensuring the security of their data and resources.

The reports generated from the IDPs must be sent out to the hybrid cloud security administrators so that a risk mitigation...