Privileged Attack Vectors: Building Effective Cyber-Defense Strategies to Protect Organizations

© Morey J. Haber and Brad Hibbert 2018

Morey J. Haber and Brad HibbertPrivileged Attack Vectorshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3048-0_15

15. The Cloud

Morey J. Haber¹  and Brad Hibbert²

(1)

Heathrow, Florida, USA

(2)

Carp, Ontario, Canada

 

The history of passwords dates back to the Roman military. Initially, they were carved into wood and soldiers passed them around via the active guard on duty. They were a shared resource. Today, the most common storage of a password is the human brain, and not physically documented and shared. We assign a password to a system or application, recall it when it needs to be used, and remember it each time we change it. Our brains are full of passwords and often we forget them, need to share them, and are forced to ...