Chapter 5 - Things To Know

Question 1

What are the correct statements about cloud platform risk and responsibilities?

Answer 1

• The risks and responsibilities will be shared between the cloud provider and customer
• The customer is concerned with data, whereas the provider is concerned with the security and operation
• The customer’s ultimate liability for data it owns remains true even if the provider’s failure was the result of negligence

Question 2

What are the threats of a hybrid cloud?

Answer 2

Personnel Threat
External Threat
Virturalization
Resource Sharing

Question 3

What are the risks related to the use of virtualization?

Answer 3

Attacks on the hypervisor
Guest Escape
Information Bleed
Data Seizure

Question 4

What are the countermeasure methods that can be adopted to address each of the threats for each of the cloud models?

Answer 4

External Attacker
Social Engineer 
Regulatory Violation 
Natural Disaster 
Contractual Failure

Question 5

What are the methods of using cloud backups for BC/DR?

Answer 5

Private architecture, cloud service as backup
Cloud operations, cloud provider as backup
Cloud operations, third-party cloud provider