It's your worst nightmare. All of your most important and
sensitive data, the thing your business values most, the thing your
company cannot operate without, the thing your regulators require
you to protect, has been taken hostage. Your business grinds to a
halt. Your customers and business partners are livid. Your
regulators are demanding an explanation as to how something like
this could happen.
Ransomware? Insidious hacking attack? No, it's your cloud
services provider. That business partner you relied upon has turned
out to be a greater threat than any hacker.
It starts in the most mundane way. You have a dispute with your
cloud provider over the amount of an invoice or your cloud provider
simply decides it wants to renegotiate the contract terms and
manufactures a reason to take action. But, how can a cloud provider
take your data hostage?
