As cloud adoption continues to grow at a rapid rate and due to the virtual treasure trove of data being stored in the cloud, cloud data is coming under increasing and persistent threat with more sophisticated attacks being designed and deployed by cyber criminals. Cloud malware injection attacks, side-channel, DDoS, hijacking and ransomware attacks are common threats that can expose sensitive data. To protect against such risks, data must be encrypted in transit and at rest.

‘But cloud providers offer server-side encryption, so surely my data is safe,’ you may argue. Granted, most cloud providers will encrypt client data. However, the encryption key is stored in the cloud and thus accessible to hackers and cloud staff alike – quite like leaving your house keys under the doormat that half the neighbourhood knows about.

cloudAshur grants the user full and secure control of the encryption key, protecting your data even if your cloud account is hacked. This ensures data confidentiality, guarding against all forms of hacking methods.

If a hacker obtains your user credentials, the breach will go unnoticed to the cloud provider as they won’t be able to decipher between a legitimate user from an attacker. By keeping the encryption key away from the cloud increases the number of security measures from just one authentication method, the cloud account login credentials, to the cloudAshur’s unprecedented five factor authentication.