It is known that cloud services increase industrial competitiveness. However, hacking incidents are still frequent. For example, HEI Hotels & Resorts which owes Marriott and Grand Hyatt, was implanted with malicious programs in their payment system, and had their customers’ credit card information stolen. Once again, it raised the issue of “cloud security”.
Cloud service is like a building, where entities use the required services on different floors. When faced with malicious attack, if there are no “disaster prevention” measures, it could spread to the whole building. This shows that cloud service providers’ security policies and disaster prevention supporting mechanisms are crucial in protecting the customers.
Regarding cloud security’s latest trend and resolution strategies, senior manager of eASPNet’s Product and Technology Department, Hans Huang said, cloud service has to be built on an entity with the highest security both physically and virtually. Providers need to have professional physical server rooms to provide services and ensure uninterrupted and normal operation of network system. It should provide safety measures for cloud platform, ensure there is no data leakage, and provide customers with various information security maintenance mechanisms, like vulnerability assessment, DDoS, etc. Instant and accurate reporting allows customers to have peace of mind.
eASPNet has 16 years of experience in maintenance and operation of data management centers, providing cloud services and more diverse applications. Besides 7×24 customer service center with instant technical support, and cooperating with local and overseas information security providers to provide immediate response to problems ranging from small problems such as abnormal traffic to big problems such as massive attack. It also has backup mechanism to ensure traditional IDC or cloud service customers have the optimal security protection. It has obtained Taiwan government’s certification and endorsement, and became the cloud service provider for the government’s software procurement platform. eASPNet’s three main businesses are: traditional hosting service, cloud value-added services (virtual host, value-added information security, offsite cloud backup, etc.) and cloud-based software (virtual desktop). They can be customized to satisfy different needs.
Cloud service’s characteristic is pay as you go. Customers do not need to be tied down with hardware or encounter problem of repeat purchase of software. It is the most economical IT application. Only by carefully selecting professional and reliable cloud service provider with watertight information security, then only can enterprises enjoy the benefits and convenience of cloud services.
