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This doesn't really surprise me, it's a natural consequence of the cloud era. Mis-configured access control on file storage and sharing services has always bee
by raesene9 9y ago
This doesn't really surprise me, it's a natural consequence of the cloud era.
Mis-configured access control on file storage and sharing services has always been quite prevalent. From a users perspective, a lax ACL just means everything works :)
In "the olden days" of corporates behind firewalls, the issues were still there but they were hidden from casual view by NAT and perimeter firewalls.
Now people operate directly on cloud services their mistakes are easy to find.
Whilst perimeter firewalls were never the security panancea that some thought they were, they did have some use in hiding all the other security issues from casual discovery :)
- BjoernKW 9y ago> This doesn't really surprise me, it's a natural consequence of the cloud era. Not necessarily. As you mentioned yourself the cloud era just exposed existing bad practices. Perhaps over time that's even a net positive because people might start to take security more seriously.
- raesene9 9y agosure people might take security more seriously, however personal experience (18 years and counting in security) suggests that's not likely :)
- oblio 9y agoI really like this quote by Steve Yegge: > But I'll argue that Accessibility is actually more important than Security because dialing Accessibility to zero means you have no product at all, whereas dialing Security to zero can still get you a reasonably successful product such as the Playstation Network. He means "usability" when he says "accessibility".