Securing your cloud

Many companies are turning to the cloud, attracted by the advantages it offers in terms of flexibility and cost effectiveness. This movement has accelerated in 2020 with the adoption of telecommuting. While many companies are using the cloud primarily for the top layers (OS, applications, data), there has been a shift towards using cloud environments for more business critical services.

The subject of security should always be paramount in any discussion or cloud project. It is the responsibility of companies to ensure adequate security "in" the cloud and therefore essential to understand the division of responsibility between the data host and the company.

Security "in" the cloud must address basic security, including data protection, identity and access control and infrastructure security. This is accompanied by an assessment of the policies in place to ensure compliance. Acensi Cybersecurity helps you to carry out this migration in a secure and compliant way.





CLOUD SECURITY POSTURE MANAGEMENT (CSPM)
Cloud security starts with complete visibility of every deployed resource and the certainty that they are properly configured and compliant. Know where the servers are located, where the users are. Ensuring that the configurations you have in place are compliant with the regulations your organisation is subject to. Ensure that you have put in place the necessary measures that are the responsibility of the company according to the shared responsibility model established by the data hosting companies. This visibility should allow you to make the necessary changes to measure the evolution of your security posture in real time.

Asset visibility
Where are your servers, where are your users: giving visibility in a unified way (even if you have adopted the multi-cloud) allows you to have a unified vision of your security posture.

Regulatory compliance
Are your configurations compliant with best practices? Can you prove your compliance with NIS, ISO 27001 or RGPD? We can help you set up a tailor-made report to establish your security posture.

IAM Governance
Your users have access to stored data. Are their privileges in line with their function?
Dormant users - Are you spending too many unused licenses?
Riskiest users - Who are your riskiest users and why?




SECURE THE CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE
Whether you are looking to migrate to the cloud, already using cloud services or looking to secure access to cloud applications, Acensi can help. We work with customers using a variety of cloud service providers such as AWS and Azure to deploy solutions that protect cloud assets from the most sophisticated threats with dynamic scalability, intelligent provisioning and consistent control over physical and virtual networks, ensuring you can embrace the cloud with confidence.

Unmatched Threat Prevention
Provides shared intelligence and advanced threat prevention security to protect all customer cloud services from the latest generation of sophisticated cyberattacks.

Security as dynamic as your cloud
Context sharing for dynamic policy updates as well as automatic provisioning, auto-scaling and one-click deployments.




CLOUD APPLICATION SECURITY
Cloud services optimise business operations but are prone to intrusions on a daily basis. Acensi's consultants can help you deploy solutions that will prevent attacks against SaaS applications, enabling consistent policies across mobile, PC and gateway, providing unified security monitoring at all levels.

Zero-Day threat protection
Prevent threats from entering SaaS applications and block phishing emails for Office365 and Gmail.

Identify protection
Block access from unauthorised users and compromised devices.

Data protection
Block the sharing of sensitive data such as emails and files, and detect and control shadow IT within the organisation.




SINGLE SIGN ON (SSO)
It is reported that in a given month, users are required to use an average of 191 passwords. Acensi offers a range of single sign-on (SSO) solutions designed to simplify the user experience while ensuring the security and integrity of the enterprise systems and applications your staff access.

By deploying an SSO solution, not only can your organisation mitigate the risk of users "losing" or writing down passwords to remember, but it can also provide visibility into which applications a user has accessed, when the access occurred and other useful information about their activity. This information helps to ensure the integrity of the company's intellectual property and data.




IDENTITY MANAGEMENT
It is essential for any business to know who is accessing its business systems and applications, and for IT to have the visibility and ability to use this information effectively. We have found that the most effective identity management solutions are those that allow access to information as and when required, without giving the user or the person managing the tool a headache.

Acensi has experience of working with a number of technologies that are scalable to the size of your business and can enable IT to not only properly manage user privileges, but also reduce the number of support calls due to locked accounts or frustrated users.




VULNERABILITY MANAGEMENT
Over the past 7 years, Acensi has tested, secured and protected sensitive and critical networks. Our certified testing team continues to build on this experience and now offers this knowledge directly and uniquely through our vulnerability assessment and management service.

Acensi provides an effective platform for reducing risk through vulnerability detection and alerting. Our managed service continuously monitors critical networks and systems, alerting and informing on vulnerabilities that could harm operations, exploit data and compromise businesses. We identify exploitable weaknesses and provide a platform to prioritise threats for effective remediation planning.

Monthly and quarterly reports are generated for compliance and vulnerabilities. Each report is reviewed by a subject matter expert who will highlight areas of concern and provide their own interpretation of events. Serious vulnerabilities will be immediately escalated and one of our consultants will be available to discuss the findings or remedial action.




CLOUD APPLICATION SECURITY BROKER (CASB)
Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) solutions enable organisations to securely adopt the cloud by providing visibility and control for cloud applications. It provides both the ability to discover the use of unauthorised cloud applications and assess the associated risks, as well as the ability to control how cloud applications such as Office 365, Google Suite, Salesforce, Box, Dropbox and others are used to prevent the loss of critical intellectual property.

Cloud Audit
Your employees access and share data using a myriad of different cloud applications. Do you know how your data is being used, where it's going and what the risk levels are? Audit your cloud and get a customised cloud threat report. This report will detail the risks on Office365, Box, G Suite and Salesforce.com:

Cloud usage patterns - How potentially dangerous activities are occurring in your organisation's cloud applications.
Geographical usage - Which countries your data travels from (you might be surprised).
Privileged users - Do you have more administrators than you need?
Dormant users - Are you spending too many unused licences?
Riskiest users - Who are your riskiest users and why?
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