Interesting article on Cloud Threat

This is another one that keeps growing.



From the article

As we move our critical assets to the cloud and access it from anywhere, and while workers can operate more freely, the borderless environment creates new threat vectors.

1. Findings indicate that the average organization has 12% of files shared organization-wide, while another 10% of files are exposed externally, and 2% are accessible publicly or searchable on the public Web.
2. Another important dimension of cloud applications is that the most successful applications create an ecosystem of third-party apps Organizations must realize is when you authorize these applications to access your identities in the cloud, or the data in the cloud apps, a connection is established between the user and a third-party entity -- your corporate environment. Effectively, their security is now your security,
3. A new threat used today as a new form of malware: Cloud Malware
4. The last threat vector of interest is that as cloud applications are out in the wild, they are being attacked through brute-force password attacks or through attempts to login with stolen credentials under the premise that many users use the same password everywhere.

For More info:
http://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities---threats/understanding-the-cloud-threat-surface/a/d-id/1325011