Top Cloud Native Attacks on software and data
Knowing what top cloud attacks are and how they can be prevented and mitigated is critical to keeping your organization as safe as possible from risks. These refer to a class of cyberattacks that target cloud computing environments such as public, private, or hybrid cloud infrastructure.
The following sub-sections describe the common vulnerabilities relevant to the authentication of users, software, and data systems running on the cloud.
User Identity Federation
One of the biggest threats to AWS accounts is the reuse of passwords by users with multiple accounts. This problem is solved with the use of identity federation. Users tend to find remembering various complicated passwords difficult. As a result, many users reuse the same passwords across multiple accounts. If one account gets compromised, even if it wasn’t the Cloud Service Provider’s account, it gives an opportunity to the attacker to gain entry to another...
