Cyber Attacking Targets Privileged Credentials Used to Administer Cloud Services Make an Attractive Target and Entry Point for Attackers In recent weeks, cyber attacks ranging from Operation Cloud Hopper to the breach at FlexiSpy demonstrate the vulnerable, expanded attack surface associated with greater cloud adoption. As organizations work to secure their applications and other sensitive assets in the cloud as part of their digital transformation strategies, these attacks demonstrate the need to quickly implement consistent security controls across cloud and on-premises environments. The risk and potential attack surface posed by privileged credentials, which include API and SSH keys, increases exponentially in dynamic cloud environments – and were a common denominator in these attacks.

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