NSA Shares Guide for Mitigating Cloud Vulnerabilities, Threats

The National Security Agency released new guidance designed to help organizations across all sectors mitigate cloud vulnerabilities, including identifying cloud security components, threat actors, and potential mitigation techniques. According to the guide, cloud vulnerabilities can be broken down into four key categories: misconfiguration, poor access control, shared tenancy flaws, and supply chain vulnerabilities. The guide is designed both for the organizational leadership team and technical staff and is broken down into three sections: cloud components, cloud threat actors, and cloud vulnerabilities and mitigations. The hope is that leadership can gain perspective on cloud security principles, while addressing cloud security considerations to assist with cloud service procurement.