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Proactive security

Proactive security

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Proactive security

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- By now, we should have an idea of security and how it's applied in making correct and proper design decisions and creating our most optimized cloud architecture. What we'll discuss here is how to make your security systems proactive. This means preventing security issues before they become problems by actively monitoring aspects of all systems in the cloud and outside of the cloud. The old way of waiting for a breach before responding means we're awaiting risk and damage before doing anything. That's no longer acceptable. Even though it's the way that many businesses currently deal with cloud security. There are a few levels of proactive security that we can consider here, including data or the ability to gather over a prolonged period to determine trends that may indicate an attack is taking place, or other indications that something needs to be proactively protected. Gathering data is really just that. The ability to monitor aspects of your cloud computing architecture, such as…

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