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24th April 2024 Issue no. 702
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Interactive administration in the cloud: managing the risks
By the UK National Cyber Security Centre:- Tips to help you secure and reduce interactive access to your cloud infrastructure:
In the NCSC’s cloud platforms guidance (and most recently in our lift and shift sections), we recommend that you protect the use of legacy management protocols – such as RDP and SSH.
This practise is arguably more important in the cloud than it’s ever been on-premises, due to the inherent connectivity that cloud environments offer.
Despite traditional approaches to secure remote access now being relatively well understood, we know that it can be difficult to understand the alternative protections available in the cloud, and (crucially) the benefits that adopting these more modern solutions can bring.
More: https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/blog-post/interactive-administration-cloud-managing-risk
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