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> Amazon has a much larger surface attack area so if they were playing fast and loose with security, chances are we would know already. I get your point and I
by Hokusai 5y ago
> Amazon has a much larger surface attack area so if they were playing fast and loose with security, chances are we would know already.
I get your point and I am no taking about AWS but about Twitch. Each part of the company has its own incentives. Amazon is well know for not caring about quality nor its employees. In my experience with corporations there is little to no technical sharing between different parts of the company. AWS could have the best SecOps in the world and Twitch could have no security at all.
Is your experience different?
- vineyardmike 5y ago> In my experience with corporations there is little to no technical sharing between different parts of the company. Amazon is all about sharing efforts with the company. That's the whole point of AWS - its a monetization of this efforts. Most older AWS services started out as internal services that someone realized was generally useful.
- nemothekid 5y agoI'm not sure what point you are trying to make. If you look at most of the high profile hacks and leaks in the past 20 years, very few of them are from web 2.0 tech companies (e.g. Google, Facebook) rather than dinosaurs (ex. Target). Those that have (like Google) have only been successfully breached by nation actors (e.g. China, NSA). As far as I can tell, there's no data to back up the assertion that these large tech companies are disregarding security if favor of profits, except for Twitch now, which is why this leak is interesting to me.