Identifying and mitigating cloud computing vulnerabilities

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Amy Larsen DeCarlo.

In less than a decade, cloud computing has grown from an intriguing niche to a mainstream market segment. Future expectations are high, with Morgan Stanley projecting Amazon Web Services will hit the $24 billion revenue mark in 2022. Of course, how successful any single provider is in growing its cloud business depends on its ability to help dispel the cloud security worries that still sideline some on-demand deployments.

The presumption that a highly virtualized, multi-tenant environment is intrinsically more susceptible to attack is a byproduct of the belief that the level of accessibility and flexibility that makes the cloud so appealing to customers also opens the door to opportunistic hackers who are ready to capitalize on the many points of entry…

These concerns about cloud computing vulnerabilities can translate into real reticence for customers deciding whether to deploy their most critical applications in the cloud. Yet there are indications that cloud security is becoming less of a barrier to entry than it was in the past. The allure of the on-demand model is strong enough that many businesses are willing to set aside some concerns around data security and privacy, at least on an experimental basis, with project-based Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) deployments to support short-term capacity needs…

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