Alphabet Inc Shuts Down Cloud Service Of Client For Malicious Attacks

August 29, 2016 Off By David
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Grazed from MarketExclusive. Author: Adam Russell.

Fred Trotter, the executive of healthcare research startup CareSet and healthcare startup DocGraph recently got to work only to find that Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) had locked him out of his cloud computing service. The CEO reported to work as usual on Monday morning only to finds that Alphabet had shut down his firm’s account on the Google Cloud computing service, worrying him and his team.

Trotter received a warning that one of his systems had been carrying out intrusive attacks against third parties. Alphabet condemned the act and warned the executive and his team that the problem should be fixed. Alternatively, they were expected to explain the legitimacy of the unexpected network traffic. Alphabet threatened to terminate the cloud services if the CEO and his team failed to carry out any of the requests…

According to Trotter, CareSet lost a lot of time trying to find out what the emails from Alphabet meant and three days passed leading to the shutdown. Trotter has since then responded via a blog claiming that the Intrusion Detection System (IDS) system most likely misread the company’s traffic. The executive believes that the IDS suspected malicious intent even when there was none…

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