Cloud Technology and Fundamentals | Assignment

Running head: CLOUD TECHNOLOGY AND FUNDAMENTALS
CLOUD TECHNOLOGY AND FUNDAMENTALS
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Question 1: What are some of the measures that can be taken to ensure that
data in a cloud environment is secure? Include techniques for data-at-rest vs.
data-in-transit encryption.
Answer:
The businesses usually use the cloud storage to store their sensitive data in a centralized
location. The cloud technology thus deals with multiple data security threats where the attackers
always try to phish the data to exploit the business and its reputation (Almorsy, Grundy &
Müller, 2016). The business data are required to be secured such that they can perform their
business operations efficiently. There are numerous data security measures for the cloud
technology. The primary measures are such as:
 Encryption Technique: In this method, the sensitive business data is transformed to an
unreadable form. This technique helps the business top retain the availability,
confidentiality and integrity of the business data (Daemen & Rijmen, 2013). The
encryption method primarily transforms the data into an unreadable form such that if an
attacker gains the information he or she cannot read the information as well as cannot
able to misuse the acquired information. In this method, there is a secret key using which
a user can easily read the information. The information can only be accessed using the
secret key. The receiver end should have the decryption key for reading the sent
information (Gorbunov, Vaikuntanathan & Wee, 2015). Encryption can be of two types:
public key encryption and symmetric encryption. The primary purpose of the data
encryption is to secure digital data from the attacker or hackers. The encryption
algorithms give confidentiality as well as security to the drive data by dealing with non –