Security Breaches, Data Loss, Outages: The Bad Side of Cloud

March 16, 2015 Off By David

Grazed from DataCenterKnowledge. Author: Bill Kleyman.

As a big supporter of cloud computing, this is never an easy topic to discuss. However, security concerns will always be present as threats continue to rise. Let me give you an example. As soon as the whole Heartbleed topic arose, our organization began fielding calls from various IT shops asking for remediation, fixes, and patches.

The crazy part was that not all OpenSSL systems were impacted. Many pre-version 1 OpenSSL systems were safe. Many others were facing the challenge up correcting and fixing this serious vulnerability. Cisco, Juniper, F5, and many others were actively deploying fixes to ensure that their systems stay safe…

Numerous social media giants – Facebook and LinkedIn for example – were also having to deal with OpenSSL issues. Furthermore, even though they were stating that patches have been deployed, these giants were asking all of their users to reset their passwords… just in case…

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