News | Cloud Storage Security

Customer Challenge

Workvivo is a workplace employee communication platform that allows organizations to keep their employees engaged and up to date with what their colleagues are doing. Like many solutions hosted on AWS, Workvivo utilizes Amazon S3 as the data store for ingesting and sharing files with its application users. Since employees using the platform can upload videos, images, documents, and other files, Workvivo realized there was a need to ensure that uploaded files are scanned for viruses and malware before they are shared with downstream application users.

According to a release from the U.S. Department of Justice, “Roughly $350 million in ransom was paid to malicious cyber actors in 2020, a more than 300% increase from the previous year”. With Amazon S3 buckets continuously being the storage medium for uploaded files by most organizations, the attack surface is only increasing when an S3 bucket is left misconfigured and storing infected files.

Customer Challenge

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There is no doubt that as each day goes by, more and more data is migrating into cloud storage. The public cloud or IaaS as some call it, has become the new normal. Out of all the data store service providers out there like Azure blob store, Google Cloud, the largest by far is Amazon S3. It has gotten so large that Amazon acknowledged their store capacity in the excess of exabytes of storage and trillions of objects. Imagine the size of the earth is measured as one gigabyte.

The Shared Responsibility Model for Object Storage

As malware attack vectors continue to grow and more and more security features are built above and below the delineation of “Security of the Cloud” (provided by AWS) and “Security in the Cloud” (your job), security teams will need to ensure a proper framework to protect their
applications and data.