Report Says Web Application Attacks a Security Threat in Data Centers and Cloud Environments
Findings from the latest Alert Logic State of Cloud Security Report highlight that Web application attacks are the most significant security threat for IT infrastructures. Alert Logic, the leading provider of Security-as-a-Servicesolutions for the cloud, regularly updates the research report based on a comparative analysis of security threats across thousands of Alert Logic customers with infrastructures in either enterprise data centers or the cloud environments of more than 20 hosting providers.
During the six-month study period, Alert Logic found that 48 percent of customers were impacted by verified Web application attacks across all customer environments. Web application attacks impacted more than half (52 percent) of the cloud hosting provider environments in the study, while 39 percent of enterprise environments experienced such attacks.