Cyber attacks move to cloud with increased adoption, report shows

Grazed from ComputerWeekly. Author: Warwick Ashford.

Cyber attacks on cloud environments have almost reached the same level as attacks on traditional IT, with increased adoption of cloud-based services by the enterprise, a study shows. The 2014 Cloud Security Report by security-as-a-service provider Alert Logic is based on an analysis of data from cloud and on-premise infrastructures of 2,200 customers.

In the past year, brute force attacks on cloud environments climbed from 30% to 44% of customers, and vulnerability scans increased from 27% to 44%, the study found. Brute force attacks typically involve a large number of attempts testing multiple common credential failings to find a way in, while vulnerability scans are automated attempts to find a security weakness in applications, services or protocol implementations that can be exploited…

These types of incidents have been far more likely to target on-premises environments in the past, but are now occurring at near-equivalent rates in both environments. The key finding of the report is that attacks seem to be increasing across all environments, and, in parallel, the types of attacks in the cloud are increasingly consistent with those experienced on premise…

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