Are you using cloud storage services? If yes, then you need to be aware of these key threats. In the cloud, data storage can be manipulated into unauthorized usage, for example, by account hijacking or uploading illegal content. The multitenancy of cloud storage makes tracking unauthorized usage more challenging. Unauthorized access: Unauthorized access can happen due to…
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How Cloud impacts Application Security
This article is intended for software development and IT teams who want to securely build and deploy applications in cloud computing environments, specifically PaaS and IaaS. Cloud computing mostly brings security benefits to applications, but as with most areas of cloud technology, it does require significant changes to existing practices, processes, and technologies that were…
How Cloud impacts Incident Response
The Incident Response (IR) Lifecycle Preparation: “Establishing an incident response capability so that the organization is ready to respond to incidents.” Process to handle the incidents. Handler communications and facilities. Incident analysis hardware and software. Internal documentation (port lists, asset lists, network diagrams, current baselines of network traffic). Identifying training. Evaluating infrastructure by proactive scanning…
QuickGuide: Cloud Incident Response Recommendations
SLAs and setting expectations around what the customer does versus what the provider does are the most important aspects of incident response for cloud-based resources. Clear communication of roles/responsibilities and practicing the response and hand-offs are critical. Cloud customers must set up proper communication paths with the provider that can be utilized in the event of an incident….
QuickGuide: Cloud Security Recommendations
Know the infrastructure security of your provider or platform: In the shared security model, the provider (or whoever maintains the private cloud platform) has the burden of ensuring the underlying physical, abstraction, and orchestration layers of the cloud are secure. Review compliance certifications and attestations. Check industry-standard and industry-specific compliance certifications and attestations on a regular basis for having the…
Common Cloud Security Threats
Cloud deployments, whether public, private, hybrid or community, are susceptible to all the traditional cybersecurity threats and more. Let’s look at the most common threats: Virtual machine attacks: Active VMs are vulnerable to all traditional attacks that can affect physical servers. Once a VM is compromised, it may be able to attack other VMs running…
QuickGuide: ISO/IEC 17789 Cloud Computing Reference Architecture (CCRA)
ISO/IEC describes cloud computing systems from four distinct viewpoints: User view: The system context, the parties, the roles, the sub-roles, and the cloud computing activities Functional view: The functions necessary for the support of cloud computing activities Implementation view: The functions necessary for the implementation of a cloud service within service parts and/or infrastructure parts Deployment…
Oracle Data Safe and Consumer Privacy Acts
New consumer data privacy laws are cropping up through out the US. Just like the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), these Acts force the hand of many (but not all) organizations to protect consumers’ data privacy rights. Privacy Acts aim to safeguard consumer privacy and it doesn’t just mean names and addresses, but also…
Installing Kali Linux on OCI
What is Kali Linux? Kali Linux is a Debian-based Linux distribution aimed at advanced Penetration Testing and Security Auditing. Kali Linux contains several hundred tools which are geared towards various information security tasks, such as Penetration Testing, Security research, Computer Forensics and Reverse Engineering. Kali Linux is developed, funded and maintained by Offensive Security, a leading information security training company. Installing Kali…
Installing Debian on OCI
Download Debian – Go to https://cloud.debian.org/images/cloud/OpenStack/9.13.7-20201108/ Download debian-9.13.7-20201108-openstack-amd64.qcow2 Upload Debian to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure – Login to your OCI Console, for instance, https://console.us-ashburn-1.oraclecloud.com/ Go to Object Storage and pick or create a bucket Upload debian-9.13.7-20201108-openstack-amd64.qcow2 to the bucket Import Debian Custom Image – Login to your OCI Console, for instance, https://console.us-ashburn-1.oraclecloud.com/ Go to Compute -> Custom Images and click on Import Image Select Import from Object Storage…