Cloud security can be broken down into 4 practical steps

Securing the cloud can feel a bit like eating an elephant. How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. The same is true for cloud security – the challenges become a lot more manageable if you break the process down into four clear and practical steps: Assess, Analyse, Act and Assure. Cloud services adoption is being driven by digital transformation and the promise of greater agility, flexibility, scalability and cost efficiency. But cloud related breaches are rising in parallel. The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport reported in its Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2018 that businesses using cloud computing were more likely to have faced breaches than those who do not (52% vs. 43%).