Serverless architecture poses new cybersecurity risks for businesses [Video]

Today’s cybersecurity environment is changing rapidly. Punctuated by the move toward serverless architecture, the technology presents operational opportunities and unprecedented security challenges.

As businesses continue to embrace serverless, security professionals are sounding the alarm, urging organizations to recognize the growing threats in these environments, according to Charles DeBeck (pictured), threat intelligence strategy lead, Google Cloud, at Google LLC.

“It’s interesting because, from a threat actor perspective, we’re not seeing a ton of activity here just yet, but we have started to see them looking at this space as a potential avenue for exploitation,” he said. “Realistically, it’s tougher to get into serverless environments in some ways because it’s just not as common. It’s not something that they use as often, but we have historically seen examples of threat actors wrapping traditional malware in a way so it could be taken advantage of in a serverless environment.”

DeBeck spoke with theCUBE Research’s John Furrier and Savannah …