Is Cloud Computing Experiencing The Same Security Threats As Enterprise Computing?

Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: Abdul Salam.

People have always feared that cloud computing is inherently lacking in security because of the distribution methods used, allowing it to be more public than necessary. But research and reports indicate that it is not less secure than enterprise computing as they actually both suffer from the same types of attack. And it does not matter if you are a small organization or a large one you will still be the target of cyber-attacks as most of them are opportunistic in nature.

While organizations and businesses are the target of online attacks, the real entryways for these attacks are unsecured personal computers. These form the backbone of the cyber-criminal’s arsenal. Hijacked computers referred to as zombies or bots are being used to make brute force attacks on different networks both within the cloud infrastructure and on-premise infrastructure. No one is actually safe, whatever kind of infrastructure that they are using. Others might be more privy to attacks due to the nature of their service like banks or the possible wealth of information that they bring, like government networks and industry leaders in technology research…

According to Alert Logic’s Fall 2012 State of the Cloud Security Report, the variations in the threat activity across the industry is not as important as where the infrastructure is located. Attacks are not industry specific or organizational size specific, they depend on the infrastructure. This means that anything that can be possibly accessed from outside, whether enterprise or cloud, has equal chances of being attacked because as mentioned, attacks are opportunistic in nature…

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