Research commissioned by HP business oriented to face current and future threats in the data stored in the cloud, while providing strategies to secure them. Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) and HP announced new research findings detailing potential threats surrounding the use of cloud services. The research paper, entitled “Top Security Threats Cloud Report” is the result of exhaustive research of professionals in information security specialists in 29 companies, solution providers and consulting companies exposed to some of the most demanding and complex environments of the cloud world. The main findings were presented at the Cloud Summit of the RSA Security conference.

“The cloud services are clearly the next generation of information technology that companies must master. We have a shared responsibility to understand the security threats that accompany the cloud services and apply best practices to reduce them, “said Jim Reavis, Founder of Cloud Security Alliance.

The research identifies the most pressing vulnerabilities that threaten the obstruction of cloud services offerings for failing to achieve their full potential. For example, companies must be aware of “abuse and perverse use of cloud computing,” which includes threats such as Trojans and bot net Info Stealing Zeus, malware that has proven particularly effective in engaging private sensitive resources in cloud environments.

However, not all threats in this category are embedded in a malicious intent. As the social web evolves, more sites rely on Application Programming Interfaces (APIs, for its acronym in English), a set of operations that enable interaction between software programs, for presenting data from different sources.

Sites that rely on multiple APIs often suffer from “unstable security link” in which an API without security may adversely affect a larger set of participants. Together, these threats contain a combination of existing vulnerabilities are magnified in environments with gravity cloud as well as new specific techniques for cloud data and systems that put at risk. additional threats outlined in the research include:

- Malicious Sources with access to information.
- Vulnerability Technology Group.
- Loss / leakage of data.
- Plagiarism Accounts / Service and Traffic.

“In order to reduce business risk associated with the service cloud, companies must invest time and resources to adequately secure its assets in data centers,” said Archie Reed, CSA committee member and chief technical specialist in cloud services HP Secure Advantage.

Source: HP

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