Data security
Cloud networks have public frontends and the ability to communicate with the broader internet. As we said earlier in this chapter, cloud infrastructure is exposed to the internet. As a result, it can be susceptible to attacks such as denial-of-service attacks, data exfiltration, and so on.
A denial-of-service attack is the act of flooding your network with tons of illegitimate network traffic to overload your network and prevent you from fulfilling the real requests. Data exfiltration is a type of security breach that leads to the unauthorized transfer of data. There are many attack paths an adversary can take once they have obtained some sort of access to a cloud network.
Securing networks running in the cloud is essential to providing data security. The following security controls can mitigate the risks presented by the cloud:
