Can Cloud Services be Exploited to Aid Attackers? | Linux Today

Can Cloud Services be Exploited to Aid Attackers?

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Sean Michael Kerner
Mar 7, 2014

The cloud is being used by organizations of all sizes as a way to lower costs and achieve a better return on investment. The cloud can also be leveraged my more malicious actors as a highly efficient platform from which to attack organizations of all sizes.

At the RSA security conference last week, Rob Ragan, Senior Senior Security Associate at Bishop Fox explained how cloud services could be exploited in a session titled, ‘Cloud Ninja: Catch Me If You Can.”

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Sean Michael Kerner

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