Evolve or die. In response to the recent cyber-attack storm, more cloud security technologies and services will emerge that are software defined, can monitor and stay close to data – wherever it lands.
Even the most secure cloud providers only offers security OF the cloud. The user is responsible for security IN the cloud. As groups, roles, devices change, oversights open vulnerabilities that lead to outright hacks or DDOS.
Cloud threat protection is currently being done by a handful of proxy based companies that are either scanning emails, blocking or bridging website traffic, circumventing DNS and other similar services.
With hackers getting smarter and finding new ways to make expensive calls with you picking up the tab, the most important way to stop these threats is to constantly monitor attacks and enable advanced firewall protection.