Cloud can be helpful in keeping online data secure:
- Cloud provides storage encryption services. It provides the protection of data from unlawful access of IT staff to the data center.
- When data is transmitted from one data center to another then Transport encryption is used in cloud computing to protect data during transmission.
- Cloud uses the web-based firewall services which provide the facility of high protection of data from the outsiders who make efforts to connect with data center illegally.
- Now the multi-factor authentication method is using by many cloud computing companies. It provides more security by using two or more combination of authentications. For example two steps password or some times single password with biometrics etc.
- Today cloud computing is also providing secure hosting services for online businesses. E-commerce websites like Amazon, eBay etc are using cloud computing to provide services to its customers with higher-level security.
There are many types of cloud computing services provided by different vendors:
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Application
hosting (Google App Engine)
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SaaS (Microsoft
Office Online)
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SaaS (Google
Apps)
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Virtual
IT (Amazon EC2)
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Servers
Iaas/PaaS (DigitalOcean)
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Network
storage (Apple iCloud)