Re:Dropbox’s Exodus from the Amazon Cloud
by toyg on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @02:29AM
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That's disingenious. The awesome sec teams at AWS or Google are not going to review and maintain your internet-facing VM network config, which is where the real threats are. Sure, their firewalls might be a bit more robust (you don't really know, you can't see them), but anything behind them is just as insecure as you configure it yourself, and that's where penetration happens in real life. Threats at hw or kernel level in a hypervisor are extremely hard to exploit, by the time you get close to that stack you can usually see much easier and juicier targets to harvest.
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Re:Dropbox’s Exodus from the Amazon Cloud
by djcapelis on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @03:19AM
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Sure. So your point is they've always needed a good security team? I'd agree with that. Either way, they should still be open about their security practices and have good answers to the questions I asked.