Cloud computing technologies can present major cybersecurity risks to federal agencies and other organizations that fail to adapt their existing processes and workforce to the cloud paradigm, according to findings published Monday..
The Cyber Statecraft Initiative at the Atlantic Council’s report explores emerging risks associated with critical infrastructure organizations leveraging new cloud services and offerings. The report highlights two distinct risks associated with cloud technologies: compounded risk and delegated control and visibility.
Compounded risk arises when the use of multiple cloud services create an increasingly complex infrastructure that heightens the threat of security breaches. Delegated control and visibility can create risks when users of cloud services have limited insights into the underlying infrastructure of their products and lack direct control over critical security matters.
“Cloud computing provides a host of efficiency and scalability benefits for adopting organizations,” Maia Hamin, associate director at the Cyber Statecraft Initiative, told Nextgov/FCW. “Often risks arise when a cloud-adopting organization misunderstands what they no longer…
