The Overlooked Security Risks of The Cloud

guest · Aug 19, 2021

The Overlooked Security Risks of The Cloud
Nate Warfield, CTO of Prevaliion, discusses the top security concerns
August 17, 2021
https://threatpost.com/security-risks-cloud/168754/

Cloud networking has done more to change computing as we know it than any other innovation in the last 15 years. It’s enabled small companies to quickly deploy an online presence, large companies to scale as demand ebbs and flows, and in a post-COVID world, it provides the foundation for a remote workforce.

This convenience however hasn’t come without its own set of challenges, and the race to “move to the cloud” has frequently left organizations and their users with an entirely new set of security challenges and data-privacy issues.
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Cloud marketplaces are rife with pre-built virtual machine (VM) images containing unpatched vulnerabilities, overly permissive firewall settings and even malware and coin miners. Cloud providers don’t take a proactive stance towards breach/compromise monitoring and, in many cases, won’t even pass on notifications to their customers which they have received from external researchers.
Lack of Protection and Customer Notification
A key problem today is that cloud providers aren’t taking a proactive stance towards breach/compromise monitoring and, in many cases, do not pass on notifications to their customers which arrive from external researchers.
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Data Leak Risks
Amazon’s S3 buckets were so commonly left insecure that search engines have been developed to allow bug-bounty hunters (and, inadvertently, malicious actors) to search exposed S3 instances for valuable data, [...]
Third-party data aggregators and advertising companies are also frequently the cause of data leaks from organizations who themselves may have strict policies about data security, [...]
Better Security Is Essential
All of this isn’t to say that cloud networking is inherently insecure, but as the world shifts to a cloud-centric and hybrid cloud environment, particularly for remote workforces, organizations need to recognize that their cloud-security strategy, policies, controls and processes must be as robust as in a classic on-premises environment.
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