{"id":5321,"date":"2013-01-09T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/blog-hub\/2013\/jan\/09\/5-cloud-server-security-tips-for-2013\/"},"modified":"2013-01-09T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T16:00:00","slug":"5-cloud-server-security-tips-for-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/5-cloud-server-security-tips-for-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"5 cloud server security tips for 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&rsquo;re like most, cloud is going to be a big part of your life in 2013. So to help you start the year off right, we&rsquo;ve prepared the following tips for securing your cloud servers. <\/p>\n<p> Here are your 5 cloud security tips for 2013 (in no particular order): <\/p>\n<p> <strong>Tip #1: Lock down the server firewall<\/strong><br \/> Big surprise &ndash; a firewall management service provider telling you to lockdown the firewall, but putting aside the brand of our soap box, the firewall is the front-line defence for all security. <\/p>\n<p>In fact, 73% of IT professionals agree, according to the Ponemon Research study on cloud security. But while there&rsquo;s a general consensus to use the firewall, few know how to do it properly. <\/p>\n<p> So here&rsquo;s one little tip from the experts: <em>Make sure you only open admin and other service ports when, for whom\/what, and for as long &#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&rsquo;re like most, cloud is going to be a big part of your life in 2013. So to help you start the year off right, we&rsquo;ve prepared the following tips for securing your cloud servers.  Here are your 5 cloud security tips for 2013 (in no part&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}