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Cloud security refers to technologies, best practices, and safety guidelines that help to protect your data from human errors,  insider and security threats. Therefore, it naturally covers a wide range of procedures, which are aimed at securing systems from data breaches, data loss, unauthorized access, and other cybersecurity-related risks that are growing from year to year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

According to the State of DevOps Threats report<\/a> the number of incidents in GitHub grew by over 20%, and around 32% of events in GitLab had an impact on service performance and customers. Moreover, it\u2019s worth mentioning that the cost of failures<\/a> is growing as well\u2026 Thus, the average cost of recovering from a ransomware attack is around $2.73 million, the average cost of data breach compiles $4.88 million, and every minute of downtime can cost up to $9K.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To prepare itself for any threats and risks in the cloud, and learn to mitigate them, companies should first understand what cloud security and privacy measures are. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Cloud services & environments – let\u2019s break down the types  <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Before we jump to cloud security we need to understand the basics, because cloud components are usually secured from two main viewpoints – cloud service types and cloud environments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s start with cloud services that providers use as modules for creating cloud environments. Well, cloud services can be provided in a range of ways, each with its own security concerns specific to distinct areas of IT infrastructure and application administration. Thus, you can find:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Infrastructure as a service (IaaS)<\/strong><\/td>Platform as a service (PaaS)<\/strong><\/td>Software as a service (SaaS)<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
This kind of service will provide you with virtualized computing resources like virtual machines, servers, and storage over the Internet. Its focus is to offer and manage basic infrastructure components, while users are responsible for configuring and taking care of network security controls, access management, and data encryption.<\/td>This model will give you a platform for developing, deploying, and maintaining your applications or other software projects without the need to handle any of the underlying infrastructure. This should prove cost-effective and give you the scalability you need. In this type of service, security focuses on securing the platform and applications, including secure coding, vulnerability assessments, and built-in security measures such as web application firewalls (WAFs).<\/td>It can provide software applications over the Internet, which removes the requirement for local installation. This kind of service will equip you with on-demand computing resources and is usually operating as a \u201cpay-as-you-go\u201d model. In terms of security, the focus is on protecting the application along with its data. Security practices often include data encryption, access controls, authentication, backups, and disaster recovery.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Then, we have different cloud environments or, so to say, deployment models. Why is it important to understand the difference between them? Like cloud service types, the cloud environments help get a better understanding of responsibilities between service providers and their customers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n