From the course: Threat Modeling: Denial of Service and Elevation of Privilege

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Cloud denial of service

Cloud denial of service

From the course: Threat Modeling: Denial of Service and Elevation of Privilege

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Cloud denial of service

- [Instructor] Let's talk about denial of service attacks against cloud-based systems. And here I mean systems designed and built to be in the cloud, not a server you forklifted, which is vulnerable and exactly the same way in the cloud as it was in your data center. I mean systems that are designed to scale up and down as needed, because here you have a choice about your response to an attack. You can scale up paying for resources and hoping the attackers get bored before your CFO gets angry, or you can accept the denial of service and hope your customers come back. That's an interesting position and represents an important difference between denial of service and other threats. There's an entire set of controls that are operational. There's another important denial of service attack against cloud systems, and that's Christmas. This is a technical point, not a religious one. As more and more presents involve the…

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