Denial-of-Service Attacks Meet the Cloud: 4 Lessons

[ramesh]

An old standby of cyber criminals—the denial-of-service attack—has become a new worry for data center operators.

As companies increasingly use virtualized data centers and cloud services, new weaknesses have opened up in enterprise infrastructure. At the same time, denial-of-service attacks are moving from brute-force floods of data to more skillful attacks on application infrastructure.

The combination is increasingly threatening for the companies that are placing critical business data outside their facilities, leaving their business reliant on continuing communications. In addition, with multi-tenant services becoming more common, attacks aimed at one company could dramatically impact the services of an unrelated, but co-located, firm.

http://www.cio.com/article/631814/De...loud_4_Lessons

[jamrock]

I am curious to see how issues like these play out in the next few years. Cloud computing is the next big thing. Even Microsoft is getting into the act with Office 365.

Instead of trying to hack into 5 separate companies, one can now just hack into a service provider of cloud services and access data from 500 companies.