With the development of the Internet of Things, mobile Internet, big data and other fields, social informatization has reached an unprecedented height, greatly stimulating China’s economic development, and the formation of an “information society” has been constantly growing and developing.
However, the degree of social information is getting higher and higher, and all kinds of information data are also increasing, and information security problems are becoming more and more prominent. Therefore, while enjoying the convenience and efficiency brought by the rapid development of information technology, how to effectively protect information security is a common problem facing the government, enterprises and individuals, which needs to be solved urgently.
In the age of information explosion and growth, cloud storage comes into being
More and more data need to be stored in life and work, or simply stored, or transmitted and shared, information is explosive growth, at this time cloud storage came into being.
As an emerging network storage technology, the cloud storage system enables a large number of storage devices of different types on the network to work together through application software to provide external data storage and service access functions through cluster applications, network technologies, or distributed file systems. The cloud storage system makes full use of the storage capacity of existing hardware to distribute computing and improve storage capacity.
Enterprises don’t move 100% of their data to cloud services, but most are willing to take advantage of cloud storage to store their data. Cloud storage is used as a hybrid cloud, so that the data stored in the data store and the data stored in the cloud can be seamlessly connected. Currently, cloud storage can be divided into common cloud storage, internal cloud storage, and hybrid cloud storage to meet different storage service requirements of different customers. These three types of storage have certain privacy and complexity, and need strong technical support to ensure the security and confidentiality of data storage.
Good as it is, how can cloud storage be better for my use?
Why do you choose cloud storage, many people may make such answer: low operating costs, can provide unlimited capacity on-demand service, distributed access, can press area distributed replication, can be realized to on-demand access to data file access service, video and image file data storage can be used the cloud codec and processing services… As a trend of future storage development, cloud storage does offer more convenience and superior performance compared with other storage methods. However, with the development of cloud storage technology, the combination of all kinds of search and application technologies and cloud storage is increasing. Therefore, all parties in society should pay great attention to the occurrence of insecure problems.
In the past few months, Internet companies, including some well-known domestic ones, have been hit hard by hackers who have a large amount of people’s personal information. While regretting the loss caused by these events, we cannot help but sigh that the importance of data security is imminent. The thorniest issue in these cases is the disclosure and loss of user data due to hacking attacks. So how to ensure data security is critical, and there are several methods:
1. Encrypt data
All data stored and transmitted in the cloud is encrypted, which is what all cloud storage providers provide. Secure encryption allows data from two different organizations to be stored on the same storage device, while ensuring that organizations cannot read each other’s data. Generally speaking, data encryption can be encrypted through information source encryption and transparent storage encryption to achieve self-controllable and improve security.
2. Have a key
Encryption is only the first step. Companies must also understand how encryption keys are stored and managed. Many cloud storage providers hold encryption keys. In this way, cloud storage providers can help customers manage data and processes, such as data backup and data recovery. But at the same time, the enterprise must establish a sound custody process to ensure that the key is not lost, otherwise the data will be difficult to access.
3. Authentication and access control
Authentication is the last step in securing the cloud storage environment, and it is a common problem for both cloud storage and traditional data centers. No matter where the keys are stored, once a user authenticates into the cloud, the data is usually available for free. So managing who logs in, and managing where, is critical.
At present, the authentication technology combined with biometric password has become an important way of identity identification for information storage security. Biometric password includes physiological characteristic password and behavioral characteristic password. Among them, identity authentication and access control based on users’ physiological characteristics, such as fingerprint, palm print, iris, face image, etc., has formed a large market; In addition, through the user’s behavioral characteristics, such as tapping rhythm, voice print, handwriting, as an auxiliary means of identification, has just entered the practical stage. The identity recognition and access control based on behavior characteristics have stronger security and concealment, which can improve the security of personal information storage.
conclusion
Information storage security is an important field that will affect China’s national security and national economy and people’s livelihood. Cloud storage, as an important means of information data storage and transmission, needs to attract the attention of the government, enterprises and individuals. With the continuous increase of data storage, it can be predicted that data storage insecurity events will continue to occur in the next few years. In this regard, the government and information security enterprises should increase relevant investment, improve technological research and development capabilities, put information security into practice, and ensure the healthy and rapid development of China’s economy.
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