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Almost every single day-I talk to people who are planning to move their organization's data to the cloud. What's more, this cloud excitement is vertical-agnostic. It's hard to find an industry that isn't thinking about cloud migration. Cisco predicts that, by 2021, 94% of global data center traffic will be processed in the cloud.
This is dramatically different from just a few years ago. Back then, if you asked an enterprise organization if they had plans to move to the cloud, it was like flipping a coin. At the time, enterprises were worried that the cloud inherently lacked security-because of the old bromide that the cloud is "somebody else's computer."
The major cloud providers listened, upping their security and compliance game while continuing to demonstrate the business agility cloud solutions could offer. Now, enterprises, on the whole, can't seem to get enough cloud.
And, for many, their security has suffered.
But their fears were staring back at them in the mirror.
There's a Hole in My AWS Bucket, Dear Liza
Consider just one example of an archetypal cloud security disaster: An IT administrator looks around his office and data center, sees all of his on-prem security solutions-database security, intrusion prevention system, anti-malware software, firewalls, physical security measures, etc.-and from there assumes that (or, at least, acts like) his cloud environment is just as secure. Consequently, he fails to build in additional security layers into the cloud environment-probably while utterly botching his security configurations.
The problem is endemic. In Amazon Web Services alone, an estimated 7% of AWS S3 buckets are configured to allow unrestricted access (which is at least down from five years ago, when that figure was nearly 16%). The list of enterprise IT organizations who had their private data publicly exposed in 2017 because of misconfigured AWS S3 buckets (whether because they did it themselves or because one of their third-party vendors put their data at risk) is long. The list includes consulting firms like Accenture, military contractors like Booz Allen Hamilton and TigerSwan, telcos like Verizon and Orange, financial institutions like Capital One, retailers like Walmart, and entertainment companies like WWE, Viacom, and the Australian Broadcast Corporation
And that's just one common way that enterprises in the cloud shoot themselves in the foot.
M&M Security in the Cloud
Now here's Part 2 of the cloud security disaster I began to describe.
Let's say, miraculously, no ill comes out of the failings of our IT administrator from the earlier example. He may even have accidentally done something right.
But now one of our lead developers looks around, sees the same things that the IT administrator did, and comes to the same conclusions as the IT administrator did about being in a "secure environment." And so, because every keystroke he can save represents precious time, our lead developer uses his recycled, easily guessable password (assuming he bothers to change the default). From there, he proceeds to upload production data (which, in a truly secure development lifecycle (SDLC), he shouldn't have access to in the first place) to the cloud. Then-completely forgetting that his code includes sensitive API keys-the developer posts said code to his GitHub repository.
Now comes an outside hacker, running a dictionary attack to get into our lead developer's GitHub repository. When the dictionary attack succeeds in a matter of seconds, the hacker gains access to our lead developer's user credentials, uses them to breach the company's AWS buckets, and holds the company's data for ransom.
This is an example of locking the door but leaving the key under the mat and having no alarm system, guard dog, or other "inner" security once the outer security of the door is breached.
Consider the tragedy of Code Spaces-a code-escrow company that publicly lauded its "well-practiced" and "proven to work" backup-recovery plan as a selling point. Code Spaces put its entire business-right down to the backups-on AWS. Then-somehow (probably in a manner not too far off from what I just described)-someone compromised or otherwise misappropriated the Code Spaces login for its AWS control panel and used the access to hold everything there for ransom. Code Spaces did not pay the money.
All of this is to say that the cloud is indeed somebody else's computer, in the same way that an apartment is "somebody else's property." You may be renting the resources, and your "landlord" may be liable for particularized maintenance items-but you're still on the hook for losses and damages if you share your keys, leave the windows open, or leave the door unlocked.
The cloud is secure-or, at least, it can be. But a lot of cloud implementations aren't secure-because enterprises have turned the security fears of the "somebody else's computer" philosophy into a self-fulfilling prophecy. Specifically, the perception of the cloud has evolved from that of "somebody else's computer" to one of "somebody else's problem." The breaches described above were all user caused. All the cloud vendors can do is offer decent UX and training, and then cross their fingers.
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So what can you do? Here are some places to start:
Address the fundamentals. Let's start with the basics. AWS buckets are private by default. To leave an AWS bucket completely unsecured requires that the administrator do more work-suggesting that probably you have security problems far greater than the scope of this article. Ditto for those administrators and developers who never change the default login credentials-or who leave their login information exposed (whether on a sticky note on a computer monitor, or in a GitHub repository).
Monitor Everything. Let's say you hire a new administrator who inherits an IT environment. Configuration issues often go overlooked as the new administrator gets acquainted with his or her new world-especially if thorough activity monitoring hasn't been implemented. And headline-splashing cloud security issues will only continue until organizations are truly monitoring what's happening in their cloud environments at the network, API, user access and raw data layers. Your central IT department, therefore, needs to be empowered with greater visibility and monitoring solutions-particularly as they may not be aware as to which workloads have been migrated to the cloud. They also need to be able to keep track of what is connecting to that cloud environment-because for every new API or other connection that is talking to your cloud environment, you have a new potential attack vector to secure.
And most will admit that they should already be monitoring all of this activity for regulatory compliance and/or forensic purposes anyway, though most simply aren't.
Have a Cloud Config Expert. Still, you need to have people who know what they are doing in the first place. It's not enough to have a team of data scientists who can work more efficiently on a cloud-based data platform. At least one of those data scientists needs to also know how to configure and secure that cloud-based data platform.
Audit Your Providers. Cloud vendors, also need to meet all of these standards-beyond mere simplicity and accessibility. (It's 2018; most of them are already sufficiently simple and accessible by now. That's why you wanted to go to the cloud in the first place.) Technology in the cloud should be leveraged to provide the visibility and transparency to inform you who in your environment-and who in their environment-is touching which data, and when. And they need to be able to prove their compliance with whatever regulations to which you and your data are subject-beyond a mere certification that may or may not be real.
But the responsibility for checking all of this-as with all cloud-security concerns-lies with you. It may be somebody else's computer, but it's your data.
Terry Ray has served as Chief Technology Officer for Imperva since July 2017. He is responsible for developing and articulating the company's technical vision and strategy. Previously, he served as Imperva's Chief Product Strategist where he consulted directly with strategic global customers on industry best practices, threat landscape, data security implementation and industry regulations. Terry is a frequent speaker for RSA, Gartner, ISSA, OWASP, ISACA, IANS, CDM, NLIT, and other organizations worldwide. He holds a B.A. in Management Information Systems from the University of North Texas.
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Five years ago development was seen as a dead-end career, now it’s anything but – with an explosion in mobile and IoT initiatives increasing the demand for skilled engineers. But apart from having a ready supply of great coders, what constitutes true ‘DevOps Royalty’? It’ll be the ability to craft resilient architectures, supportability, security everywhere across the software lifecycle. In his keynote at @DevOpsSummit at 20th Cloud Expo, Jeffrey Scheaffer, GM and SVP, Continuous Delivery Busine...
"NetApp's vision is how we help organizations manage data - delivering the right data in the right place, in the right time, to the people who need it, and doing it agnostic to what the platform is," explained Josh Atwell, Developer Advocate for NetApp, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 20th Cloud Expo, held June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
"We want to show that our solution is far less expensive with a much better total cost of ownership so we announced several key features. One is called geo-distributed erasure coding, another is support for KVM and we introduced a new capability called Multi-Part," explained Tim Desai, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Hitachi Data Systems, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 20th Cloud Expo, held June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
@DevOpsSummit at Cloud Expo, taking place November 12-13 in New York City, NY, is co-located with 22nd international CloudEXPO | first international DXWorldEXPO and will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world.
The widespread success of cloud computing is driving the DevOps revolution in enterprise IT. Now as never before, development teams must communicate and collaborate in a dynamic, 24/7/365 environment. There is no time t...
Bill Schmarzo, author of "Big Data: Understanding How Data Powers Big Business" and "Big Data MBA: Driving Business Strategies with Data Science," is responsible for setting the strategy and defining the Big Data service offerings and capabilities for EMC Global Services Big Data Practice. As the CTO for the Big Data Practice, he is responsible for working with organizations to help them identify where and how to start their big data journeys. He's written several white papers, is an avid blogge...
Without a clear strategy for cost control and an architecture designed with cloud services in mind, costs and operational performance can quickly get out of control. To avoid multiple architectural redesigns requires extensive thought and planning. Boundary (now part of BMC) launched a new public-facing multi-tenant high resolution monitoring service on Amazon AWS two years ago, facing challenges and learning best practices in the early days of the new service.
In his session at 19th Cloud Exp...
Bill Schmarzo, author of "Big Data: Understanding How Data Powers Big Business" and "Big Data MBA: Driving Business Strategies with Data Science" is responsible for guiding the technology strategy within Hitachi Vantara for IoT and Analytics. Bill brings a balanced business-technology approach that focuses on business outcomes to drive data, analytics and technology decisions that underpin an organization's digital transformation strategy.
Cognitive Computing is becoming the foundation for a new generation of solutions that have the potential to transform business. Unlike traditional approaches to building solutions, a cognitive computing approach allows the data to help determine the way applications are designed. This contrasts with conventional software development that begins with defining logic based on the current way a business operates.
In her session at 18th Cloud Expo, Judith S. Hurwitz, President and CEO of Hurwitz & ...
The proper isolation of resources is essential for multi-tenant environments. The traditional approach to isolate resources is, however, rather heavyweight. In his session at 18th Cloud Expo, Igor Drobiazko, co-founder of elastic.io, drew upon his own experience with operating a Docker container-based infrastructure on a large scale and present a lightweight solution for resource isolation using microservices. He also discussed the implementation of microservices in data and application integrat...
We build IoT infrastructure products - when you have to integrate different devices, different systems and cloud you have to build an application to do that but we eliminate the need to build an application. Our products can integrate any device, any system, any cloud regardless of protocol," explained Peter Jung, Chief Product Officer at Pulzze Systems, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA
"We are an IT services solution provider and we sell software to support those solutions. Our focus and key areas are around security, enterprise monitoring, and continuous delivery optimization," noted John Balsavage, President of A&I; Solutions, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 20th Cloud Expo, held June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
The explosion of new web/cloud/IoT-based applications and the data they generate are transforming our world right before our eyes. In this rush to adopt these new technologies, organizations are often ignoring fundamental questions concerning who owns the data and failing to ask for permission to conduct invasive surveillance of their customers. Organizations that are not transparent about how their systems gather data telemetry without offering shared data ownership risk product rejection, regu...
"Loom is applying artificial intelligence and machine learning into the entire log analysis process, from start to finish and at the end you will get a human touch,” explained Sabo Taylor Diab, Vice President, Marketing at Loom Systems, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 20th Cloud Expo, held June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
The essence of cloud computing is that all consumable IT resources are delivered as services. In his session at 15th Cloud Expo, Yung Chou, Technology Evangelist at Microsoft, demonstrated the concepts and implementations of two important cloud computing deliveries: Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS). He discussed from business and technical viewpoints what exactly they are, why we care, how they are different and in what ways, and the strategies for IT to transi...
The “Digital Era” is forcing us to engage with new methods to build, operate and maintain applications. This transformation also implies an evolution to more and more intelligent applications to better engage with the customers, while creating significant market differentiators.
In both cases, the cloud has become a key enabler to embrace this digital revolution. So, moving to the cloud is no longer the question; the new questions are HOW and WHEN. To make this equation even more complex, most...
Growth hacking is common for startups to make unheard-of progress in building their business. Career Hacks can help Geek Girls and those who support them (yes, that's you too, Dad!) to excel in this typically male-dominated world. Get ready to learn the facts: Is there a bias against women in the tech / developer communities? Why are women 50% of the workforce, but hold only 24% of the STEM or IT positions? Some beginnings of what to do about it! In her Day 2 Keynote at 17th Cloud Expo, Sandy Ca...
"My role is working with customers, helping them go through this digital transformation. I spend a lot of time talking to banks, big industries, manufacturers working through how they are integrating and transforming their IT platforms and moving them forward," explained William Morrish, General Manager Product Sales at Interoute, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 18th Cloud Expo, held June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
When building large, cloud-based applications that operate at a high scale, it’s important to maintain a high availability and resilience to failures. In order to do that, you must be tolerant of failures, even in light of failures in other areas of your application. “Fly two mistakes high” is an old adage in the radio control airplane hobby. It means, fly high enough so that if you make a mistake, you can continue flying with room to still make mistakes. In his session at 18th Cloud Expo, Lee A...
Traditional IT, great for stable systems of record, is struggling to cope with newer, agile systems of engagement requirements coming straight from the business.
In his session at 18th Cloud Expo, William Morrish, General Manager of Product Sales at Interoute, outlined ways of exploiting new architectures to enable both systems and building them to support your existing platforms, with an eye for the future. Technologies such as Docker and the hyper-convergence of computing, networking and sto...
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"At the keynote this morning we spoke about the value proposition of Nutanix, of having a DevOps culture and a mindset, and the business outcomes of achieving agility and scale, which everybody here is trying to accomplish," noted Mark Lavi, DevOps Solution Architect at Nutanix, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @DevOpsSummit at 20th Cloud Expo, held June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
DXWorldEXPO LLC announced today that Ed Featherston has been named the "Tech Chair" of "FinTechEXPO - New York Blockchain Event" of CloudEXPO's 10-Year Anniversary Event which will take place on November 12-13, 2018 in New York City. CloudEXPO | DXWorldEXPO New York will present keynotes, general sessions, and more than 20 blockchain sessions by leading FinTech experts.
TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) is a common and reliable transmission protocol on the Internet. TCP was introduced in the 70s by Stanford University for US Defense to establish connectivity between distributed systems to maintain a backup of defense information. At the time, TCP was introduced to communicate amongst a selected set of devices for a smaller dataset over shorter distances. As the Internet evolved, however, the number of applications and users, and the types of data accessed and stored also evolved. The original intent of TCP was to communicate data in the form of text across ...
The Internet of Things is clearly many things: data collection and analytics, wearables, Smart Grids and Smart Cities, the Industrial Internet, and more. Cool platforms like Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Intel's Galileo and Edison, and a diverse world of sensors are making the IoT a great toy box for developers in all these areas. In this Power Panel at @ThingsExpo, moderated by Conference Chair Roger Strukhoff, panelists discussed what things are the most important, which will have the most profound effect on the world, and what should we expect to see over the next couple of years.
Most of us already know that adopting new cloud applications can boost a business’s productivity by enabling organizations to be more agile and ready to change course in our fast-moving and connected digital world. But the rapid adoption of cloud apps and services also brings with it profound security threats, including visibility and control challenges that aren’t present in traditional on-premises environments. At the same time, the cloud – because of its interconnected, flexible and adaptable nature – can also provide new possibilities for addressing cloud security problems. By leveraging t...
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