Case Study on Cloud Security Controls

Cloud computing is a highly discussed topic in today’s technical and economic world. Many big players of the software industry are concentrating more on cloud services. Companies are racing to incorporate cloud infrastructures into their businesses or provide their own. While speaking of development, we cannot let down an important aspect called security. A misconfiguration or a minor vulnerability in a way the services are handled may result in a huge loss of data, which in turn would result in great loss of revenue. Money can be generated in one way or the other, but reputation once lost cannot be brought back again. In this paper, we discuss about the security controls and misconfigurations that frequently happen in AWS environments and discuss ways to avoid it using Capital One Data Breach as an example

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