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.
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