Windows Azure Security Essentials – Part 2/N – Cloud Threats and how Windows Azure handle them
One of the very important part of security is to know you threats, and in Cloud it’s important to know what threads are different from the On-premise environments, and those are: Traditional threats, like: Cross-site scripting (XSS), SQL Injection DoS Attacks, network spoofing, DDoS Old threads are mitigated by the system and are responsibilities of the Cloud Vendor Patching is automated and instances are moved to secure systems Cloud resiliency improves failover across a service Also some of the existing threads are expanded, like: Data privacy such as location and segregation Abuse of privilege access by admins So new … Continue reading Windows Azure Security Essentials – Part 2/N – Cloud Threats and how Windows Azure handle them