{"id":6681,"date":"2013-03-27T14:55:09","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T14:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2013\/mar\/27\/fears-cloud-insecurity-should-not-drive-infrastructure-decisions\/"},"modified":"2013-03-27T14:55:09","modified_gmt":"2013-03-27T14:55:09","slug":"fears-of-cloud-insecurity-should-not-drive-infrastructure-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/fears-of-cloud-insecurity-should-not-drive-infrastructure-decisions\/","title":{"rendered":"Fears of cloud insecurity \u201cshould not drive infrastructure decisions\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alert Logic&rsquo;s latest cloud security report has summarised that cloud security providers (CSPs) are &ldquo;inherently no less secure than enterprise data centres&rdquo;, and that cloud security threats continue to follow a consistent pattern.<\/p>\n<p>In its State of Cloud Security Report, subtitled &ldquo;Targeted Attacks and Opportunistic Hacks&rdquo;, the network security provider observed over 45,000 security incidents and found that some things don&rsquo;t change; Web application attacks are the biggest threat for IT infrastructures.<\/p>\n<p>The top three incident classes, for cloud hosting providers, were Web application attacks (52%), followed by brute force (30%) and vulnerability scans (27%). This compares interestingly with enterprise data centres, which saw malware and brute force as the number one incident class (49%).<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps unsurprisingly, brute force accounted for the most frequent type of assault, given brute force hackers try a wide variety of combinations in order to get in.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, the overall conclusion was &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alert Logic&rsquo;s latest cloud security report has summarised that cloud security providers (CSPs) are &ldquo;inherently no less secure than enterprise data centres&rdquo;, and that cloud security threats continue to follow a consistent pattern.<br \/>\nIn i&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}