Hackers see cloud as 'a fruit-bearing jackpot' for cyber attacks

'Production workloads, applications, and valuable data are shifting to cloud, and so are attacks,' says Alert Logic report

Cyber-criminals and hackers are increasingly attacking cloud infrastructure, which they see as a "fruit-bearing jackpot" as more organisations are making use of public cloud to store their data than ever before, a security company claims.

While organisations are embracing the cloud - as confirmed by Computing research - a report by security-as-a-service provider Alert Logic suggests that IT decision-makers shouldn't assume that data they store off-premise is harder for hackers to acquire.

The company warns that there has been a 45 per cent increase in application attacks against cloud deployments.

Alert Logic bases its research on an analysis of one billion events in the IT environments of more than 3,000 of its customers between January 1 and December 31 2014, which revealed more than 800,00