Cloud vs. On-premise Vulnerability (Threat Actors, Intelligence Sources, & Vulnerabilities)

Question 1

Public Cloud

Answer 1

Threat actors are external in the majority of attacks

Access Keys must be protected at all cost

Many accounts to reduce attack and blast surface

Managed security service providers (MSSP) and cloud Access Service Brokers (CASB)

Question 2

On- Premise

Answer 2

Biggest threat is privileged insiders

• C-suite or C-team
• Database engineers and architects

-Highly privileged security personne
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-HR and legal departments

Disgruntled present and ex- employee/ contractor