Cybersecurity threats abound whether you deploy workloads inside your own data center or use a public cloud. But the nature of the threats, and the main risks you’ll want to focus on, vary widely between data centers and the cloud.
Top cloud security risks
In the cloud, major security risks that users have to manage include:
- Insecure access controls for cloud services: Attackers could abuse insecure permissions settings to exfiltrate sensitive data or disrupt operations.
- API attacks: Because cloud workloads depend heavily on APIs to integrate cloud services and applications, API vulnerabilities are a particularly prevalent risk in the cloud.
