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to the creation stage because of the ease and the speed with which digital objects can be manipulated, deleted by accident or on purpose, or lost to technological obsolescence. The notion that records preservation starts at the creation stage requires that preservation considerations be incorporated and manifested...
cords retention schedule established by the records creator in collaboration with the preserver, and this identification should be indicated in the records metadata. The records so identified should be monitored throughout their lifecycle by the preserver, so that appraisal decisions and preservation considerations...
still valid, that changes to the records and their context have not adversely affected their identity or integrity and that the details of the process of carrying out disposition are still workable and applicable to the records. To monitor and implement appraisal decisions and preservation considerations, the desig...
cords creator’s recordkeeping system within limits agreed upon with the creator and reflected in the preserver’s access privileges. The preserver should establish procedures to facilitate constant interaction with the records creator. (P8) Third-party intellectual property rights attached to the creator’s records ...
property legislation. They should also be aware that, in some cases, the intellectual property rights attached to records belong to a party other than the author; that is, the intellectual property rights reside with a third party. Third-party intellectual property rights should be documented in the metadata accomp...
egislative environments, reproductions of records with third-party intellectual property rights attached to them may violate legislation that protects such rights. In the case of records identified for long-term preservation, long-term clearance of such rights should be addressed explicitly with the records creator....
preserver’s responsibility; first, to advise the creator on how to address intellectual property issues in its record-making and recordkeeping systems, and, second, to ensure that intellectual property issues are addressed in the design of the preservation system. In particular, any issues relevant to third-party ...
ment of feasibility of preservation. (P9) Privacy rights and obligations attached to the creator’s records should be explicitly identified and protected in the preservation system. (C11) Privacy legislation protects the rights of individuals with reference to personal data that may be part of any record used and ma...
access policy linked to the mandate of the records creator and even with the access to information legislation in the same jurisdiction. Besides lobbying for exceptions, the designated preserver should ensure that the consequences of the existing situation for preservation and access are clearly understood. The pre...
This is the best way to ensure that the records are managed in accordance with privacy legislation and that the preserver will be able to effectively include the privacy issues relevant to the records in the preservation feasibility study during appraisal. The designated preserver for each creator should, as a trust...
from the use of it for research or business purposes. Regardless of the legislative framework, the creator and the preserver should be able to demonstrate that archival processing of records containing personal information does not put such information at risk of unauthorized access. Preservers should also insist t...
ourcing these preservation functions to specialized commercial operators may be authorized and regulated under most existing privacy legislation, InterPARES 2 Project, Policy Cross-domain Page 19 of 19 Policy Framework, v1.2 (March 2008) L. Duranti, J. Suderman and M. Todd InterPARES 2 Project, Policy Cross-dom...
nauthorized disclosure of personal information in the records and of jeopardizing the ability to obtain permission to process personal information for preservation purposes. In the case of records that are not yet designated for permanent preservation, appraisal decisions should be taken before the initial mandate ...
ness processes that contribute to the creation and/or use of the same records. (C9) A record may be created for one purpose and then subsequently used for different purposes by different persons. Any appraisal decision should consider all uses of the record and be aware of the business processes behind them. This i...
n. The use of records or information within records by different business processes may be desirable from the creator’s standpoint in terms of providing a degree of interoperability among the creator’s information and record systems. In such situations, the preserver should advise the creator that metadata attached...
their identity and integrity in each context. It is also critical for the preserver who must understand all contexts in which the records were used to effectively undertake appraisal and also to meet the baseline requirements for maintaining authenticity for any records acquired into the preservation system. (P11) ...
lue and determining the feasibility of their preservation.36 As part of the assessment of value, preservers must establish the grounds for presuming that the records being appraised are authentic. This means that preservers must ensure that each record identity has been documented and maintained as documented and mu...
thenticity must be measured against the InterPARES Benchmark Requirements.37 (P12) Archival description should be used as a collective authentication of the records in an archival fonds. (C6) Archival description of a fonds emerges from the comprehensive analysis of the various relationships interwoven in the cour...
of individual records can be in part established through their metadata, the authenticity of aggregations of records (i.e., file, series or fonds), can only be proved through archival description. It has always been the function, either explicit or implicit, of archival description to authenticate the records by p...
of Electronic Records: Appraisal Task Force Report,” in The Long-term Preservation of Authentic Electronic Records: Findings of the InterPARES Project, Luciana Duranti, ed. (San Miniato, Italy: Archilab, 2005), 67–98. PDF version available at http://www.interpares.org/book/interpares_book_e_part2.pdf. 37 See the al...
olicy Cross-domain Page 21 of 21 but, with digital records, this function has moved to the forefront. In fact, as original digital records disappear and an interminable chain of non-identical reproductions follows them, the researchers looking at the last of those reproductions will not find in it any information...
mply an attestation of the authenticity of individual records, but a collective attestation of the authenticity of the records of a fonds and of all their interrelationships as made explicit by their administrative, custodial and technological history (including a description of the recordkeeping system(s) within wh...
ta attached to individual records, which are part of the record itself and are reproduced time after time with it and from the additional metadata attached to records aggregations (e.g., file, series) within the recordkeeping system to identify them and document their technological transformations. The unique func...
the bond of a common provenance and destination. (P13) Procedures for providing access to records created in one jurisdiction to users in other jurisdictions should be established on the basis of the legal environment in which the records were created. (C13) Different jurisdictions may have different laws and regu...
rvers who are a unit of a records creator (e.g., in-house archival programs or archives) that has geographically separated branches falling under different legislation must be aware of the impact of such diverse legal contexts on their records-sharing activities. This will affect access policies relevant to both int...
Top Threats Working Group The Notorious Nine Cloud Computing Top Threats in 2013 February 2013 © 2013, Cloud Security Alliance. All rights reserved. 2 CLOUD SECURITY ALLIANCE The Notorious Nine: Cloud Computing Top Threats in 2013 The permanent and official location for Cloud Security Alliance Top T...
ownload, store, display on your computer, view, print, and link to The Notorious Nine: Cloud Computing Threats in 2013 at http://www.cloudsecurityalliance.org/topthreats/, subject to the following: (a) the Report may be used solely for your personal, informational, non-commercial use; (b) the Report may not be modifi...
y the Fair Use provisions of the United States Copyright Act, provided that you attribute the portions to The Notorious Nine: Cloud Computing Threats in 2013. © 2013, Cloud Security Alliance. All rights reserved. 3 CLOUD SECURITY ALLIANCE The Notorious Nine: Cloud Computing Top Threats in 2013 Contents Ack...
ummary ................................................................................................................................................................. 6 1.0 Top Threat: Data Breaches .......................................................................................................................
..................... 8 1.2 Controls ......................................................................................................................................................................... 8 1.3 Links ......................................................................................................
................................................................ 9 2.1 Implications ................................................................................................................................................................... 9 2.2 Controls .........................................................
............................................................................................................... 9 3.0 Top Threat: Account or Service Traffic Hijacking ............................................................................................................ 10 3.1 Implications ........................
..................................................................................................................................... 10 3.3 Links ...............................................................................................................................................................................
................................................................................................................................................................. 12 4.2 Controls ................................................................................................................................................
..................... 12 5.0 Top Threat: Denial of Service .......................................................................................................................................... 14 5.1 Implications ......................................................................................................
....................................................... 14 5.3 Links ............................................................................................................................................................................ 14 6.0 Top Threat: Malicious Insiders .........................................
.......................................................................................... 16 6.2 Controls ....................................................................................................................................................................... 16 6.3 Links .................................
......................................................................................................................... 18 7.1 Implications ................................................................................................................................................................. 18 7.2 Contro...
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............................................................................................................................................................ 19 8.2 Controls .....................................................................................................................................................
................ 20 9.0 Top Threat: Shared Technology Vulnerabilities .............................................................................................................. 21 9.1 Implications .......................................................................................................................
...................................... 21 9.3 Links ............................................................................................................................................................................ 21 © 2013, Cloud Security Alliance. All rights reserved. 5 CLOUD SECURITY ALLI...
Ginsburg, Copywriter Luciano JR Santos, Research Director Evan Scoboria, Webmaster Kendall Scoboria, Graphic Designer John Yeoh, Research Analyst The CSA Top Threats to Cloud Computing Survey in 2012 was assisted by the extended CSA Top Threats Working Group, led by committee members: Aaron Alva, Olivier Calef...
Y ALLIANCE The Notorious Nine: Cloud Computing Top Threats in 2013 Executive Summary At an unprecedented pace, cloud computing has simultaneously transformed business and government, and created new security challenges. The development of the cloud service model delivers business-supporting technology more efficie...
Yet these advances have created new security vulnerabilities, including security issues whose full impact is still emerging. Among the most significant security risks associated with cloud computing is the tendency to bypass information technology (IT) departments and information officers. Although shifting to c...
esses are vulnerable to security breaches that can quickly erase any gains made by the switch to SaaS. Recognizing both the promise of cloud computing, and the risks associated with it, the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) has pioneered the creation of industry-wide standards for effective cloud security. In recent ...
tandard catalogue of best practices to secure cloud computing, comprehensively addressing this within the thirteen domains of CSA Guidance and ten categories of service associated with the SecaaS Implementation Guidance series. Already, many businesses, organizations, and governments have incorporated this guidance...
The Notorious Nine: Cloud Computing Top Threats in 2013” report is to provide organizations with an up-to-date, expert-informed understanding of cloud security threats in order to make educated risk-management decisions regarding cloud adoption strategies. The top threats report reflects the current consensus amon...
-demand nature of cloud computing. To identify the top threats, CSA conducted a survey of industry experts to compile professional opinion on the greatest vulnerabilities within cloud computing. The Top Threats working group used these survey results alongside their expertise to craft the final 2013 report. Th...
ritical threats to cloud security (ranked in order of severity): 1. Data Breaches 2. Data Loss 3. Account Hijacking 4. Insecure APIs 5. Denial of Service © 2013, Cloud Security Alliance. All rights reserved. 7 CLOUD SECURITY ALLIANCE The Notorious Nine: Cloud Computing Top Threats in 2013 6. Malicious ...
identification guide that will help cloud users and providers make informed decisions about risk mitigation within a cloud strategy. This threat research document should be utilized in conjunction with the best practices guides, “Security Guidance for Critical Areas in Cloud Computing V.3” and “Security as a Servic...
ance. All rights reserved. 8 CLOUD SECURITY ALLIANCE The Notorious Nine: Cloud Computing Top Threats in 2013 1.0 Top Threat: Data Breaches It’s every CIO’s worst nightmare: the organization’s sensitive internal data falls into the hands of their competitors. While this scenario has kept executives awake at ...
of Wisconsin and RSA Corporation released a paper describing how a virtual machine could use side channel timing information to extract private cryptographic keys being used in other virtual machines on the same physical server. However, in many cases an attacker wouldn’t even need to go to such lengths. If a mul...
well. 1.1 Implications Unfortunately, while data loss and data leakage are both serious threats to cloud computing, the measures you put in place to mitigate one of these threats can exacerbate the other. You may be able to encrypt your data to reduce the impact of a data breach, but if you lose your encryption k...
a breaches. 1.2 Controls CCM DG-04: Data Governance - Retention Policy CCM DG-05: Data Governance - Secure Disposal CCM DG-06: Data Governance - Non-Production Data CCM DG-07: Data Governance - Information Leakage CCM DG-08: Data Governance - Risk Assessments CCM IS-18: Information Security - Encryption CCM IS-...
chitecture - Production/Non-Production Environments CCM SA-07: Security Architecture - Remote User Multi-Factor Authentication 1.3 Links 1. Cross-VM Side Channels and Their Use to Extract Private Keys http://www.cs.unc.edu/~yinqian/papers/crossvm.pdf 2. Multi-Tenant Data Architecture http://msdn.microsoft.com/en...
lication Security Domain 12: Identity, Entitlement and Access Management Domain 13: Virtualization IS THREAT STILL RELEVANT? TOP THREAT RANKING IaaS PaaS SaaS RISK MATRIX Perceived Risk Actual Risk © 2013, Cloud Security Alliance. All rights reserved. 9 CLOUD SECURITY ALLIANCE The N...
nan, writer for Wired magazine: in the summer of 2012, attackers broke into Mat’s Apple, Gmail and Twitter accounts. They then used that access to erase all of his personal data in those accounts, including all of the baby pictures Mat had taken of his 18-month-old daughter. Of course, data stored in the cloud can...
he permanent loss of customers’ data unless the provider takes adequate measures to backup data. Furthermore, the burden of avoiding data loss does not fall solely on the provider’s shoulders. If a customer encrypts his or her data before uploading it to the cloud, but loses the encryption key, the data will be ...
notifications. Additionally, many compliance policies require organizations to retain audit records or other documentation. If an organization stores this data in the cloud, loss of that data could jeopardize the organization’s compliance status. 2.2 Controls CCM DG-04: Data Governance - Retention Policy CCM DG-...
ntec Finds http://news.investors.com/technology/011613-640851-cloud-computing-data- loss-high-in-symantec-study.htm 2. Kill the Password: Why a String of Characters Can’t Protect Us Anymore http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/11/ff-mat-honan-password-hacker/ RISK ANALYSIS CIANA: Availability, Non-Repudia...
Management Domain 13: Virtualization IS THREAT STILL RELEVANT? TOP THREAT RANKING SERVICE MODEL IaaS PaaS SaaS RISK MATRIX Perceived Risk Actual Risk © 2013, Cloud Security Alliance. All rights reserved. 10 CLOUD SECURITY ALLIANCE The Notorious Nine: Cloud Computing Top Threats i...
till achieve results. Credentials and passwords are often reused, which amplifies the impact of such attacks. Cloud solutions add a new threat to the landscape. If an attacker gains access to your credentials, they can eavesdrop on your activities and transactions, manipulate data, return falsified information, ...
nch subsequent attacks. In April 2010, Amazon experienced a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) bug that allowed attackers to hijack credentials from the site. In 2009, numerous Amazon systems were hijacked to run Zeus botnet nodes. 3.1 Implications Account and service hijacking, usually with stolen credentials, remains a...
ility of those services. Organizations should be aware of these techniques as well as common defense in depth protection strategies to contain the damage (and possible litigation) resulting from a breach. Organizations should look to prohibit the sharing of account credentials between users and services, and leve...
/Authorization CCM IS-09: Information Security - User Access Revocation CCM IS-10: Information Security - User Access Reviews CCM IS-22: Information Security - Incident Management CCM SA-02: Security Architecture - User ID Credentials CCM SA-07: Security Architecture - Remote User Multi-Factor Authentication CCM ...
_treat/ RISK ANALYSIS CIANA: Authenticity, Integrity, Confidentiality, Non-repudiation, Availability STRIDE: Tampering with Data, Repudiation, Information Disclosure, Elevation of Privilege, Spoofing Identity IS THREAT STILL RELEVANT? TOP THREAT RANKING SERVICE MODEL IaaS PaaS SaaS RISK MATRIX ...
Zeus bot found using Amazon’s EC2 as C&C Server http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/09/amazon_ec2_bot_control_channel/ CSA REFERENCE Domain 2: Governance and Enterprise Risk Management Domain 5: Information Management and Data Security Domain 7: Traditional Security, Business Continuity, and Disaster ...
rved. 12 CLOUD SECURITY ALLIANCE The Notorious Nine: Cloud Computing Top Threats in 2013 4.0 Top Threat: Insecure Interfaces and APIs Cloud computing providers expose a set of software interfaces or APIs that customers use to manage and interact with cloud services. Provisioning, management, orchestration, ...
access control to encryption and activity monitoring, these interfaces must be designed to protect against both accidental and malicious attempts to circumvent policy. Furthermore, organizations and third parties often build upon these interfaces to offer value-added services to their customers. This introduces t...
tions While most providers strive to ensure security is well integrated into their service models, it is critical for consumers of those services to understand the security implications associated with the usage, management, orchestration and monitoring of cloud services. Reliance on a weak set of interfaces and A...
Restriction/Authorization CCM SA-03: Security Architecture - Data Security/Integrity CCM SA-04: Security Architecture - Application Security 4.3 Links 1. Insecure API Implementations Threaten Cloud http://www.darkreading.com/cloud-security/167901092/security/application- security/232900809/insecure-api-impl...
-on-contain-big-flaws.html RISK ANALYSIS CIANA: Authenticity, Integrity, Confidentiality STRIDE: Tampering with Data, Repudiation, Information Disclosure, Elevation of Privilege IS THREAT STILL RELEVANT? TOP THREAT RANKING SERVICE MODEL IaaS PaaS SaaS RISK MATRIX Perceived Risk Act...
: Information Management and Data Security Domain 6: Interoperability and Portability Domain 9: Incident Response Domain 10: Application Security Domain 11: Encryption and Key Management Domain 12: Identity, Entitlement, and Access Management © 2013, Cloud Security Alliance. All rights reserved. 14 C...
cloud service from being able to access their data or their applications. By forcing the victim cloud service to consume inordinate amounts of finite system resources such as processor power, memory, disk space or network bandwidth, the attacker (or attackers, as is the case in distributed denial-of- service (DDo...
te a lot of fear and media attention (especially when the perpetrators are acting out of a sense of political “hactivism”), they are by no means the only form of DoS attack. Asymmetric application-level DoS attacks take advantage of vulnerabilities in web servers, databases, or other cloud resources, allowing a ma...
ck is like being caught in rush-hour traffic gridlock: there’s no way to get to your destination, and nothing you can do about it except sit and wait. As a consumer, service outages not only frustrate you, but also force you to reconsider whether moving your critical data to the cloud to reduce infrastructure cost...
not be able to completely knock your service off of the net, but may still cause it to consume so much processing time that it becomes too expensive for you to run and you’ll be forced to take it down yourself. 5.2 Controls CCM IS-04: Information Security - Baseline Requirements CCM OP-03: Operations Management ...
DDoS Attacks http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/cloud-use-grows-so-will-rate- of-ddos-attacks-211876 RISK ANALYSIS CIANA: Availability STRIDE: Denial of Service CSA REFERENCE Domain 8: Data Center Operations Domain 9: Incident Response Domain 10: Application Security Domain 13: Virtualization Domain...
y Alliance. All rights reserved. 15 CLOUD SECURITY ALLIANCE The Notorious Nine: Cloud Computing Top Threats in 2013 2. Computerworld: DDoS is Cloud’s security Achilles heel (September 16, 2011) http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/401127/ddos_cloud_security_achil les_heel/ 3. OWASP: Applicat...
Security Alliance. All rights reserved. 16 CLOUD SECURITY ALLIANCE The Notorious Nine: Cloud Computing Top Threats in 2013 6.0 Top Threat: Malicious Insiders The risk of malicious insiders has been debated in the security industry. While the level of threat is left to debate, the fact that the insider threa...
who has or had authorized access to an organization's network, system, or data and intentionally exceeded or misused that access in a manner that negatively affected the confidentiality, integrity, or availability of the organization's information or information systems.” 6.1 Implications A malicious insider, suc...
evels of access to more critical systems, and eventually to data. Systems that depend solely on the cloud service provider (CSP) for security are at great risk here. Even if encryption is implemented, if the keys are not kept with the customer and are only available at data-usage time, the system is still vulnera...
ing / Security Policy CCM DG-07: Data Governance - Information Leakage CCM FS-02: Facility Security - User Access CCM FS-05: Facility Security - Unauthorized Persons Entry CCM FS-06: Facility Security - Off-Site Authorization CCM HR-01: Human Resources Security - Background Screening CCM IS-06: Information Securi...
es / Responsibilities CCM IS-15: Information Security - Segregation of Duties CCM IS-18: Information Security - Encryption 1 http://www.cert.org/insider_threat/ RISK ANALYSIS STRIDE: Spoofing, Tampering, Information Disclosure IS THREAT STILL RELEVANT?...
RITY ALLIANCE The Notorious Nine: Cloud Computing Top Threats in 2013 CCM IS-19: Information Security - Encryption Key Management CCM IS-29: Information Security - Audit Tools Access CCM RI-02: Risk Management - Assessments CCM SA-09: Security Architecture - Segmentation 6.3 Links 1. Insider threats to clo...
threat/167801100/security/news/240146276/cloud-s-privileged-identity-gap- intensifies-insider-threats.html CSA REFERENCE Domain 2: Governance and Enterprise Risk Management Domain 5: Information Management and Data Security Domain 11: Encryption and Key Management Domain 12: Identity, Entitlement and Acc...
oud Services One of cloud computing’s greatest benefits is that it allows even small organizations access to vast amounts of computing power. It would be difficult for most organizations to purchase and maintain tens of thousands of servers, but renting time on tens of thousands of servers from a cloud computing ...
ng an array of cloud servers, he might be able to crack it in minutes. Alternately, he might use that array of cloud servers to stage a DDoS attack, serve malware or distribute pirated software. 7.1 Implications This threat is more of an issue for cloud service providers than cloud consumers, but it does raise a ...
s CCM IS-24: Information Security - Incident Response Legal Preparation CCM IS-26: Information Security - Acceptable Use 7.3 Links 1. Cross-VM Side Channels and Their Use to Extract Private Keys http://www.cs.unc.edu/~yinqian/papers/crossvm.pdf 2. Pirate Bay Ditches Servers and Switches to the Cloud ...
rprise Risk Management Domain 9: Incident Response IS THREAT STILL RELEVANT? TOP THREAT RANKING RISK MATRIX N/A SERVICE MODEL IaaS PaaS SaaS © 2013, Cloud Security Alliance. All rights reserved. 19 CLOUD SECURITY ALLIANCE The Notorious Nine: Cloud Computing Top Threats in 2013 8.0 Top Thr...
improved security. While these can be realistic goals for organizations that have the resources to adopt cloud technologies properly, too many enterprises jump into the cloud without understanding the full scope of the undertaking. Without a complete understanding of the CSP environment, applications or services ...
y not even comprehend, but that are a far departure from their current risks. 8.1 Implications An organization that rushes to adopt cloud technologies subjects itself to a number of issues. Contractual issues arise over obligations on liability, response, or transparency by creating mismatched expectations betwee...
e customer’s expectation. Unknown operational and architectural issues arise when designers and architects unfamiliar with cloud technologies are designing applications being pushed to the cloud. The bottom line for enterprises and organizations moving to a cloud technology model is that they must have capable res...
ments CCM IS-04: Information Security - Baseline Requirements CCM IS-12: Information Security - Industry Knowledge / Benchmarking CCM OP-03: Operations Management - Capacity / Resource Planning CCM RI-01: Risk Management - Program CCM RI-02: Risk Management - Assessments CCM RS-01: Resiliency - Management Program...
- Application Security RISK ANALYSIS STRIDE: All CSA REFERENCE Domain 2: Governance and Enterprise Risk Management Domain 3: Legal and Electronic Discovery Domain 8: Data Center Operations Domain 9: Incident Response, Notification and Remediation IS THREAT STILL RELEVANT? TOP THREAT RANKING SERVICE ...
loud Computing Top Threats in 2013 CCM SA-08: Security Architecture - Network Security CCM SA-09: Security Architecture - Segmentation 8.3 Links 1. Perfecting the unknown: Cloud Computing http://www.mysanantonio.com/business/article/Perfecting-the-Unknown- Cloud-Computing-4157844.php © 2013, Cloud Se...
ce providers deliver their services in a scalable way by sharing infrastructure, platforms, and applications. Whether it’s the underlying components that make up this infrastructure (e.g. CPU caches, GPUs, etc.) that were not designed to offer strong isolation properties for a multi-tenant architecture (IaaS), re-...
ld include compute, storage, network, application and user security enforcement, and monitoring, whether the service model is IaaS, PaaS, or SaaS. The key is that a single vulnerability or misconfiguration can lead to a compromise across an entire provider’s cloud. 9.1 Implications A compromise of an integral pi...
entire environment to a potential of compromise and breach. This vulnerability is dangerous because it potentially can affect an entire cloud at once. 9.2 Controls CCM DG-03: Data Governance - Handling / Labeling / Security Policy CCM IS-04: Information Security - Baseline Requirements CCM IS-07: Information Sec...