Although security practitioners don’t like to admit it, segmentation attacks can and do happen in the cloud, and building in segmentation defense can be critical to the security of your cloud environment. Over the past few years, for example, we’ve seen Rowhammer attacks in the cloud, specifically those leveraging the Flip Feng Shui technique to manipulate dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) from address spaces across a virtualization boundary.

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