Keeping the Data Safe – Securing a System
No one wants to be the headline news story, especially when their data is stolen. One of the best ways to help protect your data is to secure the operating system and its services. Securing is often compared to an onion, as there are multiple layers that are difficult to peel open, each providing some defense against bad actors. When bad actors attack your data, it’s not always to steal it; it’s often to change it as well. To make matters worse, when you move to the cloud, you will have to protect not only against internal threats, such as rogue contractors or employees, and external threats, such as hackers attacking the systems, but you also have to protect your data against your cloud provider as well. In security, you never know who is the bad actor!
It is not just protecting your systems against bad actors; many industries also require a strong security stance. This is common with healthcare, which often requires...
