Security News > 2020 > February > Cloud misconfigurations are a new risk for the enterprise
At RSA 2020, Steve Grobman, senior vice president and chief technology officer at McAfee, explained how easy it is to take advantage of cloud misconfigurations, an expensive security problem for corporations.
His timely scenario was a group of researchers sequencing the genome of a virus to illustrate how sharing data through the cloud can lead to a security vulnerability.
This reverse proxy server set up for sharing research data can access both data that the researchers wanted to share and data they didn't.
Instance metadata is information about a cloud instance that is used to configure or manage the instance, including, host name, events, and security groups.
In addition to making sure cloud configurations are secure, security teams have to address tomorrow's security risks today, Grobman said.