CSA (Computer Security Alliance) recently came out with 2013 Top Cloud Computing Security Threats. Cloud security has improved a lot, but threats still lurk; and as the ease to adopt the cloud applications becomes easier, vulnerabilities also increases as organizations might unknowingly expose themselves to malicious threats. Hence, it becomes extremely important for the organizations to keep an eye out for the threats mentioned by CSA. Following are the nine critical threats to cloud security (ranked in order of severity):
To protect your organization, check out CSA’s best practices guides, “Security Guidance for Critical Areas in Cloud Computing V.3” and “Security as a Service Implementation Guidance.”
The permanent and official location for Cloud Security Alliance Top Threats research is http://www.cloudsecurityalliance.org/topthreats .
- Data Breaches
- Data Loss
- Account Hijacking
- Insecure APIs
- Denial of Service
- Malicious Insiders
- Abuse of Cloud Services
- Insufficient Due Diligence
- Shared Technology Issues
To protect your organization, check out CSA’s best practices guides, “Security Guidance for Critical Areas in Cloud Computing V.3” and “Security as a Service Implementation Guidance.”
The permanent and official location for Cloud Security Alliance Top Threats research is http://www.cloudsecurityalliance.org/topthreats .
