Cloud Security - BlackHark

Our Cloud Security Services

Ensuring Robust Cloud Security in the Digital Era

At BlackHark, we place utmost importance on ensuring the highest levels of cloud security. As a valued customer, you can rest assured knowing that our data center and network architecture have been meticulously designed to exceed the stringent standards set by even the most security-conscious organizations. One of the remarkable benefits of partnering with BlackHark is the unparalleled flexibility it offers. Our cutting-edge cloud infrastructure empowers you to effortlessly scale your operations and foster innovative solutions, all within a fortified environment. Moreover, our unique pricing model enables you to pay solely for the services you utilize, eliminating the burden of upfront expenses typically associated with traditional on-premises setups. This not only grants you the peace of mind of top-notch security measures but also does so at a remarkably lower cost compared to maintaining an on-premises infrastructure.

Ensuring Compliance with Compliance and Data Residency Requirements

The location in which your data is physically located remains entirely under your control and ownership, making it simple to satisfy regional compliance and data residency requirements.

Enhancing Continuity Through Regional Replication

You can opt to replicate data between geographical regions in order to further boost redundancy and fault tolerance, in addition to replicating applications and data across different data centres in the same region utilising Availability Zones.

Encrypting Data on the Global Network to Protect It

Before leaving our secure facilities, all data passing via the BlackHark global network that connects our datacenters and regions is automatically encrypted at the physical layer. There are also additional encryption layers, such as all VPC cross-region peering traffic and TLS connections between customers or services.

Our Cloud Security Services

Ensuring Robust Cloud Security in the Digital Era

At BlackHark, we place utmost importance on ensuring the highest levels of cloud security. As a valued customer, you can rest assured knowing that our data center and network architecture have been meticulously designed to exceed the stringent standards set by even the most security-conscious organizations.
One of the remarkable benefits of partnering with BlackHark is the unparalleled flexibility it offers. Our cutting-edge cloud infrastructure empowers you to effortlessly scale your operations and foster innovative solutions, all within a fortified environment. Moreover, our unique pricing model enables you to pay solely for the services you utilize, eliminating the burden of upfront expenses typically associated with traditional on-premises setups. This not only grants you the peace of mind of top-notch security measures but also does so at a remarkably lower cost compared to maintaining an on-premises infrastructure.

Ensuring Compliance with Compliance and Data Residency Requirements

The location in which your data is physically located remains entirely under your control and ownership, making it simple to satisfy regional compliance and data residency requirements.

Enhancing Continuity Through Regional Replication

Encrypting Data on the Global Network to Protect It

BlackHark provides scalable and effective encryption options, giving you the option to add an extra layer of security to your cloud-based data that is at rest. This comprises:

BlackHark storage and database services, including Glacier, Oracle RDS, SQL Server RDS, and Redshift, offer data encryption features.
Flexible key management alternatives, such as the BlackHark Key Management Service, let you decide whether to handle the encryption keys yourself or have BlackHark do it.
Server-side encryption (SSE)-encrypted message queues for SQS's delivery of sensitive data.
Dedicated, hardware-based cryptographic key storage with BlackHark CloudHSM, enabling you to meet regulatory requirements

Moreover, BlackHark offers APIs so that you may incorporate encryption and data security into any services you create or implement in a BlackHark environment.

In the cloud, availability is of utmost importance. Customers of BlackHark profit from Cloud services and technology developed from the ground up to offer resilience against DDoS attacks.
In order to construct a defence in depth approach and counter DDoS attacks, a combination of BlackHark services may be deployed. Services created with an automatic DDoS response assist shorten the amount of time needed to mitigate and lessen effect.
Learn how BlackHark technologies, including as autoscaling, CloudFront, and BlackHark DNS, can be used to lessen the impact of DDoS attacks.

The results of BlackHark's ongoing infrastructure testing are compiled in our compliance reports. For more information on the core services for which BlackHark customers can conduct security analyses or penetration tests against their own BlackHark infrastructure without prior authorization, read our penetration testing section.

BlackHark offers a number of security features and services to improve privacy and regulate network access. These include:

You may establish private networks and manage access to your instances and apps using the network firewalls integrated into VPC and the web application firewall features in BlackHark WAF.
TLS encryption in transit with customer control for all services.
Dedicated or private connections from your workplace or on-premises environment are made possible by connectivity solutions.
On the regional and worldwide BlackHark networks, all traffic is automatically encrypted.

BlackHark Cloud provides tools and features that enable you to see exactly what’s happening in your secure environment. This includes:

Cloud Trail provides deep visibility into API calls, including who, what, who, and where calls were made.

Options for log aggregation, streamlined compliance reporting, and investigations.

Alerts are sent via BlackHark Watch when particular events or thresholds are reached.

With the help of these capabilities and technologies, you can enhance your environment's security posture and lower its risk profile while gaining the insight you need to identify problems before they have an adverse effect on the business.

You may establish, manage, and enforce user access controls across all BlackHark services with the help of BlackHark. This includes:

You are able to specify individual user accounts with permissions across all BlackHark resources using BlackHark Identity and Access Management (IAM).

For privileged accounts, multi-factor authentication is available, with possibilities for hardware-based authenticators.

To cut down on administrative work and enhance end-user experience, you can integrate and federate with corporate directories using Directory Service.

In addition to API connectivity with any of your own applications or services, BlackHark offers native identity and access management integration across many of its services.

A variety of solutions are available from BlackHark Cloud to help you move quickly while yet making sure that your cloud resources adhere to organisational rules and best practises. This includes:

Our security inspector is a service that automatically evaluates applications for flaws or departures from acceptable practises, affecting affected networks, operating systems, and associated storage.

Tools for managing the deployment and discontinuation of BlackHark resources in accordance with organisational standards.

BlackHark resources are identified using inventory and configuration management systems, such as config, which then track and manage changes to those resources over time.

Tools for template definition and management, such as cloud formation, are used to establish preset, standardised environments.