The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) has released a new report designed to examine the most pervasive security threats still threatening cloud in 2013.
Called “The Notorious Nine” – presumably using the same nomenclature that Enid Blyton employed for the protagonists of her fabled children’s books – the CSA enlisted the help of industry experts, and is designed to be used in conjunction with other CSA best practice guides; “Security Guidance for Critical Areas in Cloud Computing V.3” and “Security as a Service Implementation Guidance”.
According to the CSA the nine security challenges cloud players face, ranked in order, are:
- Data breaches
- Data loss
- Account hijacking
- Insecure APIs
- Denial of service
- Malicious insiders
- Abuse and nefarious use
- Insufficient due diligence
- Shared technology issues
Most of these seem relatively self-explanatory, with the vast majority making headlines in the cloud computing space.
The dreaded data breach was, perhaps unsurprisingly, the top threat. Calling …