Cloud Security Research: Cross-Cloud Adversary Analytics
Newly published research from security firm Rapid7 is painting a worrying picture of hackers and malicious actors increasingly looking for new vectors against organizations with resources hosted in public cloud infrastructure environments.
Some highlights of Rapid7’s report:
- The six cloud providers in our study make up nearly 15% of available IPv4 addresses on the internet.
- 22% of Softlayer nodes expose database services (MySQL & SQL Server) directly to the internet.
- Web services are prolific, with 53-80% of nodes in each provider exposing some type of web service.