Cloud Computing: The Increasing Cybersecurity Attack Surface

Grazed from NetworkWorld. Author: Jon Oltsik.

I just read a good Wall Street Journal blog by Ben DiPietro titled, Speed of Tech Change a Threat to Cybersecurity. His main point is that while organizations are adopting new technologies like cloud computing, mobile computing, and applications based upon the Internet of Things (IoT), they continue to address cybersecurity risks, controls, and oversight with legacy tools and processes.

This creates a mismatch where cyber-adversaries have a distinct offensive advantage over a potpourri of assorted legacy enterprise security defenses. I couldn’t agree more Ben but it may be worse than you think as this discrepancy has been going on for years. In a 2012 research survey, ESG asked security professionals to describe the impact of numerous new IT initiatives on infosec operations and management at their organizations (note: I am an ESG employee). The research indicated that:…

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