Cloud Attack Vectors: Building Effective Cyber-Defense Strategies to Protect Cloud Resources

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M. J. Haber et al.Cloud Attack Vectorshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8236-6_2

2. Cloud Computing

Morey J. Haber¹  , Brian Chappell² and Christopher Hills³

(1)

Lake Mary, FL, USA

(2)

Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK

(3)

Gilbert, AZ, USA

 

The move to cloud computing has accelerated rapidly in recent years, and there’s no slowdown on the horizon. Organizations are moving their infrastructure, including mission-critical systems, out of their direct control and onto platforms that are delivered and supported by cloud service providers (CSP). When we consider the value of the data that’s being processed and stored in the cloud, this is a move that might have seemed impossible, ...