Attacking the cloud

The cloud has its security challenges as we're about to find out. Let's discuss some of the challenges we face when securing the cloud environment.

Cloud security

One of the biggest concerns with cloud computing is security. When your data is stored in the cloud, you need to be sure that it is safe and secure. Here's the secret about cloud security: it's just another network infrastructure that we might be including within our own networks. So, the exact same threats that we experience against our internal networks (including wireless) are the same threats we see with the cloud. Things such as injection attacks, authentication issues, data leakage, misconfiguration, coding issues, passwords, and web server/app weaknesses are just a few of them. However, I'd be failing you if I didn't at least talk about a couple of them, so here we go:

• Make sure you choose a reputable cloud provider with a good reputation for security...