10:57 Hackers do not consider the "cloud" secure enough | |
The latest hacker conference Defcon guys from the company Fortify Software conducted a survey among the participants of this conference. Were interviewed about 100 hackers, and the purpose of the survey - to find out what participants think about security in the cloud environment. Interesting results were obtained - 96 participants, ie 96% of the respondents, said they believe such a platform is very attractive, "opening new opportunities." In addition, survey respondents said they consider insufficient the efforts of manufacturers "cloud" software and hardware to ensure the safety of their products. 45% of respondents said that they had already experienced the "cloud" on the strength, finding a different vulnerability. And although only 12% said they would actively seek opportunities to "monetize" these vulnerabilities (ie, steal information and money to users), it is quite a significant percentage when you consider how many companies has passed and goes on a platform of distributed computing. Of course, should take into consideration the fact that not all hackers are openly admit (albeit in an anonymous survey) in their intention to get rich this way. And here is an earlier study conducted by Gartner, shows that 20 percent of surveyed companies are going to all their data stored in the cloud, but from time to time keeping up with all the necessary information to external media. Returning to the respondents to hackers, we note that 21% responded that they felt most vulnerable to cloud services. Of those hackers, who have already tried similar platform on the strength of 33, responded that found the vulnerability in the DNS, 16% said they gained access to the log files, 12% were able to access private user data "clouds". So, the team that conducted the survey, drew the attention of all manufacturers of hardware and software for the needs of cloud services, the need for increased attention to the security of their own products. Experts in network security can not stop repeating that the security system should be checked again and again, then to not be excruciatingly painful for the admitted negligence. Source. | |
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