Cybersecurity

Select few pose vast majority of cyber risks, security firm warns

Cloud computing has changed the way organizations operate by allowing applications and data sets to be accessed from anywhere with Internet. But researchers warn in a new report that entire businesses can be easily brought down because of serious risks caused by a concentration of authority evidenced across the cloud.

Analysts with CloudLock, a Massachusetts-based security firm, say companies that put their product on the cloud are often times also placing a tremendous — and potentially dangerous — amount of trust in a small group of privileged users.