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_4

4. Cloud Definitions

Morey J. Haber¹  , Brian Chappell² and Christopher Hills³

(1)

Lake Mary, FL, USA

(2)

Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK

(3)

Gilbert, AZ, USA

 

Without a doubt, the cloud has changed the way we do business. The growth of the cloud has also given rise to many marketing buzzwords, such as “digital transformation” and “zero trust.” However, while these terms push the use cases and architectures for cloud deployments to new levels, cloud deployments have pushed several industry standard terms to evolve to include the cloud in their definitions.

We can no longer think of an identity ...