Cloud
"An almost total lack of communication"
HMG spends more on Gartner than on Microsoft via G-Cloud.
"A lot of midstream changes that take a little bit of time to get the hardware actually yielding the percentage [of] healthy and high-quality servers we expect…”
"What they did is HARD. Going past CUDA to really get that level of optimization is not a small accomplishment..."
Two "unusual, open ports (8123 & 9000) that led to the exposed database" were not hard to find.
"The elephant in the room has gone unaddressed: sky-high cloud credits are the most damaging method..."
Existing public cloud tools "offered limited visibility, only reporting daily aggregated costs without granularity at the pod or workload level"
Customer security hygiene to blame: Best mitigation, says AWS: "Never create long-term credentials in the first place"