Public Cloud Data Center:Blind Spot for Security, Safe Haven

for Cyberattackers

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Blind& Blinder

The public cloud data center is even more of a blind spot than the traditional data center. Today most organizations lack the ability to detect an active attacker at work on the on-premise or private cloud network. Targeted attackers can gain access to the network and then work for months without fear of being discovered. Insiders are also hard to spot. Detecting attacker activity is even more rare in the public cloud

RisksStolen data (data breach) in the public cloud

Manipulation of data in the cloud

Launching point for DDoS attacks on other sites

Defacement of company website

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks

Ransomware attack on cloud data center

Ransomware attack launched from cloud on on-prem or private data center

Attacks using cloud servers as the entry point for on-prem or private cloud networks

Egress point for an attack

Attack affecting the availability of IaaS

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Ingress

Egress

Blind SpotsIngress Reconnaissance

Egress

Cloud infrastructure can act as an entry point for an attacker to gain access to an on-prem data center or network

Undetected reconnaissance within the cloud data center

Lateral MovementUndetected lateral movement within cloud data center

New route for command & control (C&C) or data exfiltration

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