Dimension Data Cloud Chief: Cloud Platform Providers Must Fight Fraud, Cybercrime

Grazed from CRN. Author: Robert Westervelt.

Attacker access to cloud-computing platforms has become an epidemic and may need a global consortium to better educate cloud providers and help reduce the problem, according to a cloud expert who leads Dimension Data’s global cloud initiatives.

Account fraud, account hijacking and the use of stolen credentials to gain criminal access to cloud-computing resources has been a longstanding issue, which is becoming a serious problem that impacts all cloud providers, said John Rowell, formerly chief technology officer at cloud provider OpSource, who now leads global research and development, and service operations in Dimension Data’s Cloud Solutions Business Unit. Rowell said his firm works constantly to weed out fraudulent accounts and address the issue, but other providers may lack the desire or the wherewithal to deal with the problem…

"It’s something the industry, in general as a group, and especially cloud providers, need to come together and start to talk about," Rowell told CRN. "We are giving these end users — if you are not careful and not policing your fraudulent accounts and policing who is signing up for your systems — we are giving them the platform to launch their attacks."…

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