On the Tenth Day of Christmas, the Industry Predicted…Cloud Vendor Compromise

As the penultimate working week before the Christmas break draws to a close, there are now just nine sleeps before the big day. However, before we all head off to make the most of the last real shopping opportunity this weekend there’s just enough time to continue our series of predictions for 2017, with thoughts now turning to the likelihood of a cloud vendor compromise next year.
This is something that Anomali senior threat researcher Aaron Shelmire expects to hit the headlines in a big way in 2017, predicting that a major cloud vendor will be in the news for suffering a significant security breach.
He argued that, thus far, none of the large cloud storage/infrastructure companies have detailed a breach since the Aurora attacks that Google did in 2009. This is in an environment where as many as 89% of healthcare organizations experienced a data breach in 2015, yet we aren’t hearing much about them from the companies that host these industries data and systems.
“People and businesses are relying upon cloud services more than ever,” he told Infosecurity. “Cloud services are more convenient and often cheaper than alternatives. As people increase their dependence upon cloud services, the goals of malicious actors will follow the data and computing resources to the cloud.”
 
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