As data in the cloud becomes more valuable, the cost of weak security will soon be higher than many organizations can bear. Here’s why.
The past few months have seen a deluge of attacks on database deployments in production environments. Victor Gevers, an ethical hacker and founder of GDI Foundation, broke news about attacks on MongoDB instances in December, and this was covered again in the Kaspersky Labs blog. We then heard about attackers going after CouchDB and Hadoop databases in the wild.