What are the major commercial cloud infrastructure security issues?
Security on cloud is always a shared responsibility model, where the cloud providers take care of the underlying infrastructure and customer is responsible for the security of their workloads on the cloud – by using cloud security services or other 3rd party security services. Some Common security issues – not necessarily limited to cloud 1. Data Breaches / Data Loss - Despite the fact that generally speaking, enterprise-grade cloud services are more secure than legacy architecture, there is still a potential security threat in the form of data breaches and downtime. Cloud services are highly accessible and the vast amount of data hosted on the cloud makes them an attractive target. The most prominent recent data breach is the one that happened in Equifax in 2017 . It resulted in a leak of personal data of over 143 million consumers. Equifax’s developers hadn’t updated their software to fix the reported vulnerability. Hackers took advantage of this and the breach happened. Un...