<\/span><\/h3>\nAlthough at the advantages of IaaS we mentioned that security is better with such cloud services, there are also risks involved if the IaaS cloud servers are not managed properly by the customer.<\/p>\n
For example, buying a compute instance as an IaaS product (for example AWS EC2, Azure or Google Cloud Virtual Machines etc), necessitates that the customer will perform all required hardening and software maintenance to keep a high level of security on such cloud servers.<\/p>\n
Moreover, the data in the Cloud is at risk of data breaches leading to the organization’s sensitive information being exposed to unauthorized third parties and malicious attackers. This is because Cloud providers are usually main targets of cyber-attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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