IN SPACE – JULY 13: Mission specialist Piers J. Sellers participates in the mission’s third and … [+]
Getty ImagesCloud is complex, continually. The structure of modern cloud networks is developing in a multi-tired way where every complex connection and intelligent intersection also has an equal (and often opposite) reaction in terms of delivering vulnerability and risk.
Cloud risk comes in many forms, but we can distil the streams into two core channels – external and internal.
There are those risks created as a result of vulnerabilities that expose a cloud system or network to external malicious bad actors and threats. There are also internal cloud risks created as a result of poorly misconfigured services, where cloud engineering teams (software developers, system architects, supporting operations staff and others) have built and formed joins to components,…
