GDPR will change how companies work with cloud providers
One of the bigger stipulations in GDPR is that third-party service providers, including companies who run the ever-ubiquitous cloud, will also be responsible for following the correct protocols when it comes to protecting EU citizen data. Yet just as companies keep throwing everything into the cloud, we are seeing errors in the way they safeguard personally identifiable data. If you have been following the work of Chris Vickery, you know how easily these errors can be found. Vickery, director of cyber risk research for California-based Upguard, has been finding misconfigured cloud instances all over the internet. Just in the past year, Vickery identified these openly discoverable instances associated with a Florida credit monitoring firm, media behemoth Viacom, and even at the Department of Defense. Each finding had enough PII to keep privacy officers sleepless for weeks. While they were all based in America, Vickery recently came across a similar breach at French marketing firm Octoly, which caters […]
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