A Capital One breach affected 100 million customers. While Amazon Web Services, the cloud provider, isn't at fault, experts say it could do more.
, security researchers knew about this exact type of vulnerability for years before this specific attack.to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, saying:"If several organisations all make similar configuration errors, it is time to ask whether the underlying technology needs to be made safer, and if the company that makes it shares responsibility for the breaches."
Still, Business Insider spoke with various analysts, researchers, and security companies on whether cloud providers should do more to protect its customers from making mistakes like this. Capital One did not respond to request for comment. "It's up to you as a consumer to secure your own platform," Bosquez told Business Insider."I think AWS is one of the most advanced technology platforms that we've seen of our time. If you're not an expert in how to manage and leverage it, you can do some damage on it. They give you enough ropes to secure what you need to. You just need to follow best practices they prescribe.
Ravi Balupari, founder and vice president of engineering and research at ArecaBay, says that cloud providers could do more to provide customers with more controls to monitor how their data is being accessed. Riley notes that from what we know so far, the attack wasn't especially stealthy: The system itself appears to have logged the cyberattack as it happened; ituntil a tipster let the bank know that the data was out in the wild.
"Since their platform is being used more and more, they can play a large part in educating their customers and make sure their customers know what options they have and secure their own systems," Paunet told Business Insider.
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