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From a critical perspective, your comment made me think about the risks posed by rogue IT personnel, especially at scale in the cloud. For example, Fastmail is
by wslh 2y ago
From a critical perspective, your comment made me think about the risks posed by rogue IT personnel, especially at scale in the cloud. For example, Fastmail is a single point of failure as a DoS target, whereas attacking an entire datacenter can impact multiple clients simultaneously. It all comes down to understanding the attack vectors.
- UltraSane 2y agoCloud providers are very big targets but have enormous economic incentive to be secure and thus have very large teams of very competent security experts.
- wslh 2y agoYou can have full security competence but be a rogue actor at the same time.
- portaouflop 2y agoYou can also have rogue actors in your company, you don’t need 3rd parties for that
- wslh 2y agoThat doesn't sum up my comments in the thread. A rogue actor in a datacenter could attack zillions of companies at the same time while rogue actors in a single company only once.
- UltraSane 2y agoAnd I bet AWS is also better at detecting rogue actors.
- UltraSane 2y agoAnd I bet AWS is better at detecting them.
- UltraSane 2y agoI don't understand what this is trying to say.