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Discussion on: Consider these Risks when Developing Applications on the Cloud

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Andrew Wright

"idle services", often referred to as "orphaned" or "zombie" infrastructure, is also runs the serious risk of misconfiguration. If you aren't aware of a cloud resource you have running, you're not patching it and you're not scanning it for misconfiguration. Quite a few cloud-based breaches begin when a bad actor exploits a vulnerability in an orphaned cloud resource, which gives them access to the environment (and often discoverability with regards to what else is in the environment).