Details on over 350,000 SSL247 customers exposed due to misconfigured AWS bucket

The cloud itself represents the ultimate 3rd party risk, and minimum viable compliance is proven yet again to be nowhere close enough to minimum viable security. The twist is that the shared responsibility model for the cloud puts 100% the responsibility on the data owner when they are responsible to secure, configure, and control the cloud they are using. This is a classic and preventable case of breakdown - assuming the cloud’s controls are in place or sufficient, and illustrating the weak reliance on checklists and humans to enforce them. So many organizations rely on risk assessments instead of hard, proven controls like encryption and tokenization of data. The former may meet a policy, but only the latter will stop data theft when misconfiguration, attack, or error leaves data exposed.  Read Less