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enterprise-ready services procured by the IT “Whether it’s the underlying components that P
department such as O ce 365 to far lesser Cybersecurity concerns have led many decision-makers to take a step back make up this infrastructure (e.g. CPU caches,
known and riskier services such as FreakShare.”
GPUs, etc.) that were not designed to o er
e report further estimates that sensitive and consider private cloud or hybrid solutions as the starting point
strong isolation properties for a multi-tenant
corporate data makes its way to the cloud architecture (IaaS), re-deployable platforms
routinely, with 15.8 percent of documents in (PaaS), or multi-customer applications (SaaS),
le-sharing services containing some form of the threat of shared vulnerabilities exists in all managers are increasingly concerned about the best ways to deal with cloud abuse? e
sensitive content.
delivery models,” writes the Cloud Security security risk of those devices?
Cloud Security Alliance de nes cloud abuse
As we mentioned in our mid-year review, Alliance.
#4: Do you allow employees to use their as “a bad guy using a cloud service to break
“Cybersecurity concerns have led many decision- #1: Are you using the right tools? 60 percent own devices? e rise of bring-your-own- an encryption key too di cult to crack on a
makers to take a step back and consider private of UK IT managers surveyed by e Register‘s device (BYOD) and bring-your-own-application standard computer. Another example might be
cloud or hybrid solutions as the starting point. cloud survey said they were using VPN (BYOA) means that many cloud services and a malicious hacker using cloud servers to launch
Intrusions into corporate databases at Target, connections, but only 34 percent said they were tools are sneaking into organizations under the a DDoS attack, propagate malware, or share
Sony, Home Depot and, just recently, the hacking using cloud rewalls or encrypting data at rest. noses of IT leaders. In a recent survey, more pirated so ware.”
of 22.1 million Federal employee records have led “ e numbers continued to drop in regards to than half of the IT respondents said that when
#2: What cloud technologies are being
companies to think twice. Security issues, which other preventative measures until the bottom
it came to cloud services, the biggest challenge shared, and with whom? Cloud service
have always been part of the cloud debate, are of the list where only 15 percent said they were was assessing the security risk before employee providers o en share infrastructure, platforms
now center stage.”
using obfuscation or tokenization of sensitive adoption.
and applications to deliver their services in a
While the above-named breaches generated data,” e Register reported. ■
#3: How do you de ne and determine the
scalable way.
quite a bit of attention, a study by the Ponemon
Institute showed that breaches are much more
widespread, with an estimated 43 percent of
companies having experienced at least one data
breach in 2014. Clearly, the enterprise cloud and
local applications are both under attack. So what
are corporations expected to do?
e bright side of this story is that many of the
same security practices used to secure traditional
enterprise applications also apply to the cloud.
To focus on preventing the risk of data
breaches, ask yourself:
#12: What is your company policy when
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