{"id":1441,"date":"2018-12-26T15:20:31","date_gmt":"2018-12-26T21:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/media-moon.com\/blog\/?p=1441"},"modified":"2019-02-07T14:04:35","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T20:04:35","slug":"how-biometrics-can-be-used-for-your-cloud-infrastructure-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/media-moon.com\/blog\/how-biometrics-can-be-used-for-your-cloud-infrastructure-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"How Biometrics Can Be Used For Your Cloud Infrastructure – Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a small business owner you are obviously looking for ways to cut back expenses, and to do things on a \u201clean and mean\u201d basis.<\/p>\n

One area that you have probably looked at most recently is your IT budget.<\/p>\n

You are probably thinking to yourself: \u201cOk, do I really need this?\u201d, or \u201cCan I get rid of that?\u201d.<\/p>\n

These questions keep getting asked even more if you have what is known as an \u201cOn Premises\u201d solution.<\/p>\n

This simply means that your entire IT infrastructure is physically located at the place of your business.<\/p>\n

Yes, there will be many expenses to this, and one of the biggest ones is that of hiring the staff to maintain all of this for you.<\/p>\n

But, there is one option that can drastically cut your expenses – migrating all of your IT assets to the cloud.<\/p>\n

The advantages to this are scalability, fixed pricing, no hardware or software licensing fees, etc.<\/p>\n

While all this sounds good and is realistic, the cloud is still not a 100%, guaranteed secure environment either.<\/p>\n

There are steps that you, the business owner can take to make sure that your cloud provider is ensuring that all levels of security are being used.<\/p>\n

This even includes the use of biometric technology.<\/p>\n

In this series of blog posts we will examine how these tools can help fortify the lines of defense of your cloud based IT infrastructure.<\/p>\n

However, first, it’s important to provide an overview of what the cloud is all about, from a broad perspective.<\/p>\n

A Formal Definition of the Cloud<\/em><\/h3>\n

The best way to explain what the Cloud is to provide a formal definition of it, which is as follows:<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe cloud is not a physical entity, but instead is a vast network of remote servers around the globe which are hooked together and meant to operate as a single ecosystem. These servers are designed to either store and manage data, run applications, or deliver content or a service such as streaming videos, web mail, office productivity software, or social media. Instead of accessing files and data from a local or personal computer, you are accessing them online from any Internet-capable device \u2014 the information will be available anywhere you go and anytime you need it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Because of the great vastness of the cloud infrastructure and the sensitive information and data that it possesses, it has become one of the prized targets for the cyber attacker.<\/p>\n

There are security-based mechanisms in place to protect it, but it hardly ever seems to be enough.<\/p>\n

There is one technology that could almost be \u201cbullet proof\u201d for a cloud infrastructure \u2013 and, that is once again, biometrics.<\/p>\n

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Conclusions<\/em><\/h3>\n

There are three distinct parts of the Cloud, known as the following:<\/p>\n