Week 9: Application Attacks, Vulnerabilities, & Risks

What are different types of attacks, vulnerabilities, and risks?

Concepts:

  • What are different types of attacks, vulnerabilities, and risks?
    • Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks
    • Data Breaches
    • Misconfigurations
    • Insider Threats
  • Consequences:
    • Cloud environments are susceptible to various attacks and vulnerabilities
    • DDoS attacks can overwhelm cloud resources with excessive traffic
    • Data breaches lead to unauthorized access to sensitive data stored in the cloud
    • Misconfigurations can expose vulnerabilities

Data Breaches

Examples of of cloud security providers that provide robust security measures to protect data are Microsoft Azure Kay Vault and AWS Key Management Service.

Difference cloud services that are private vs public.

Quiz:

► Question 1: What are the 4 types of application attacks, vulnerabilities, and risks?

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks, Data Breaches, Misconfiguration, & Insider threats.

► Question 2: What do DDoS attacks do?

Overwhelm cloud resources.