Cloud Data Security Challenges that Need Special Attention
Data Breach - It is among the most serious and potentially costly cloud data security risks. With several cloud apps, note sharing apps and others cloud services being accessed by business users every day, these are potentially at risks of attempted attack.
Non Compliance - With data security being multi-faceted wide ranging responsibility, sometimes it many result in non-compliance violations resulting in excessive fines, lawsuits and even criminal penalties.
Insider Threats - The gravest threats to data security is company's own employees, as majority of the business leaders say that improper access controls for cloud applications are the biggest threats to cloud security.
Data Loss due to Disaster - Any accident or natural catastrophe or any other manner of mayhem might cause an organization to lose access to its IT infrastructure and this might also lead to the permanent loss of customer data.
Insecure APIs - To communicate sensitive data among applications, APIs require direct access to each app and as the collection of APIs grows even the vulnerability for a potential breach also increases.