Welcome to Bulldog IT

Bulldog IT – Cloud Security

Bulldog IT – Cloud Security

Cloud security is the technology and best practices designed to ensure information and data are protected within a business’s environment. It is a basic part of any IT infrastructure strategy that utilises the cloud. Cloud security guarantees data privacy and compliance around data stored in the cloud.

Robust cloud security is vital for organisations making the change to the cloud. Security dangers are continually developing and getting more complex, so cloud computing is no less at risk than an on-premise environment. Because of this, it is fundamental to work with a cloud supplier that offers top tier security that has been customised for your infrastructure.

Why Security is important in Cloud Computing

We understand that every organisation is different, and Bulldog IT aim to provide protection for all types of environment. We can assist organisations to implement security policies and ensure that their cloud security adheres to any compliance and legal requirements, such as ISO27001, Cyber Essentials and GDPR regulations.

IT security has never been as significant as it is today. The threat landscape is wider than ever before, with new and more dangerous Malware created daily, businesses need to take every precaution to protect themselves from external as well as internal threats.

The Bulldog IT team focus on an array of IT security services across the country (and abroad). With twenty years’ experience of defining and implementing IT security strategies, Bulldog IT is an IT partner that you can trust to deal with such crucial concerns on your behalf; specialising in the dangers and security issues looked at by small and medium-sized organizations today.

Ensure Integrity

Bulldog IT provides reliable and secure security solutions to protect cloud-based environments, ensuring integrity in any solutions that we provide for clients. As the first layer, it is important to have the right security products in place on the device itself. At the very least clients need to have a secure and managed antivirus solution, but preferably with encryption, antispam and managed anti-malware to help to mitigate the risk of the overall environment.

Other cloud security solutions we recommend implementing include multi factor authentication. MFA uses multiple factors like Knowledge Factors, Possession Factors, and Inherence Factors to verify the identity of people. In most cases, once you have entered your password, it will ask you to verify a 6-digit code sent to your mobile. This is considerably more secure compared to the single-factor authentication.

Patch Management is the process of distributing and applying updates to software and applications that are susceptible to cyber-attacks, helping your organisation reduce its security risk. Our Bulldog IT agent pushes patch updates on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday across all our client’s infrastructure.

Cloud Security FAQ’s

Cloud security will include 24/7 monitoring of potential threats to your business, with first-rate technology to manage and counter threats that smaller businesses might find it difficult to afford or operate. You’ll also be able to scale up (or down) the services you use, in response to your business’ changing needs.

With many businesses now using more than one cloud service provider, multi-cloud security planning is now a necessity to effectively protect business’ data. Key to this is finding a cloud-agnostic multi-cloud management solution, giving you a centralised way to set up, manage and fix issues within the various clouds.
 
It’s also important to automate as much cloud management as possible, reducing the potential for human error.

All traffic coming into your organisation will go through a virtual security gateway. In addition, your business’ endpoints, such as applications, devices and access ports, will all be protected, giving you peace of mind.
 
Meanwhile, potential threats will be proactively monitored and traffic can be segmented to spread your cyber risk.


Want to find out more about what Bulldog IT's security team can do for you? Get in touch with us today.

Popular IT Security Questions

Can you tell us exactly what IT we have across our company, globally if needs be?

Absolutely. Without knowing exactly what you have across your desktops, servers, networks and applications etc, how often you use it, its security vulnerabilities etc? Without asking these fundamental questions, how are you ever going to secure an environment you don't know fully about. Security 101

We have some 'IT stuff' in the cloud and some not. Can you help us identify any security vulnerabilities we might have?

Want to move away from your old cumbersome desktop / laptop and all the management / support that goes with that device. Want a clean, secure, updated, consistent desktop, for you and your staff? Helping you move on and keep up to date with IT allowing your staff to spend more time 'working' rather than dealing with IT issues!

How secure are our desktops, networks, applications, connectivity? Find our security issues please!

Cloud / Cyber security should be at the forefront of any business processes. Lose you connectivity, data, files, apps, company account info and your business could be in serious trouble, not just with its ability to function, but also from the Law. We can help you secure your networks, lockdown your desktops, secure your email systems and educate staff about IT security.

Bulldog IT's CIO consultancy group - common requests

We need a temporary CIO / IT director to come in. Once or twice a month. Sit with the SMT and understand our business drivers. Then translate that into an IT strategy that we, as non technical people can understand and we can then implement.
OR
Our current IT supplier is great, we don't want to change them, we just need someone to sanity check the advice they are giving us. Their solutions seem quite expensive and we want to ensure that we are getting the best value for our money and not investing in systems or solutions that will not be fit for purpose as we grow.

We have a CIO consultancy group set-up for just these types of requests.

Reach out to us today for a consultation