Enterprise clouds hammered by cyber attacks during pandemic - ComputerWeekly.com

Enterprise clouds hammered by cyber attacks during pandemic - ComputerWeekly.com

A steady stream of attacks on enterprise clouds during the first couple of months of 2020 has become a flood since the start of the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, with external attacks spiking by more than 600% in the space of a few weeks.

That is according to new statistics produced by cyber security firm McAfee using data drawn from 30 million users of its Mvision Cloud service. The Cloud adoption and risk report – work-from-home edition highlights what McAfee describes as “significant” and “potentially long-lasting” trends as the usage of cloud services, often accessed via unmanaged devices, spikes during lockdown.


It said such trends emphasised the need for security delivery models to change fundamentally, and urgently, particularly in industries such as financial services and manufacturing, which more usually rely on on-premise applications, networking and security, as well as the education sector.


“The move to widespread remote working has required many industries to adopt new cloud services in order to maintain staff communication and collaboration during such a challenging time,” said Nigel Hawthorn, data privacy expert for cloud security at McAfee. “However, it is important to recognise the increased threat from cyber criminals who see opportunity in cloud services that are not managed securely.


“Cloud and data security should be absolutely front and centre in informing any enterprise’s cyber security approach – even more so when they are increasingly reliant on the cloud. Without ascertaining where sensitive data resides or how it is used and shared, it is simply impossible for organisations to have an accurate picture of their security posture and where any vulnerabilities may be.”


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