Recently hackers managed to erase the online life of a US journalist. They were able to do this by exploiting two major points of weakness. Firstly, the journalist had everything stored in the cloud and accessible through a single gateway. Secondly, the hackers were able to successfully talk their way past the two cloud service providers' security controls, giving them open entry to the journalist's entire digital life. To make matters worse, the writer had not backed-up any of his information. It would be easy to dismiss this story as an example of individual error and oversight; something that simply couldn't happen to an organisation. But would we be right in doing so? Is a business of ten, a hundred or a thousand people any better protected or prepared for the new vulnerabilities introduced by the cloud?
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