New research from cloud security firm Ermetic shows that nearly all businesses have identities that, if compromised, would place at least 90 percent of the S3 buckets in their AWS account at risk.
Ermetic conducted the study to determine the circumstances that would allow ransomware to make its way to Amazon S3 buckets. The research revealed a very high potential for ransomware in organizations’ environments.
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is an object storage service that offers scalability, data availability, security, and performance. Customers of all sizes and industries can use it to store and protect any amount of data for a range of use cases, according to Amazon. These use cases include data lakes, websites, mobile applications, backup and restore, archive, enterprise applications, IoT devices, and big data analytics.
Amazon S3 provides easy-to-use management features so subscribers can organize data and configure finely-tuned access controls to meet specific business, organizational, and compliance requirements. Amazon S3 is designed for 99.9 percent (11 9’s) of durability, and stores data for millions of applications for companies all around the world, Amazon claims.
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