The Cloud Edge Is The New Attack Surface
DARKReading, September 17,2025
The cloud now acts as the connecting infrastructure for many companies' assets - from IoT devices to workstations to applications and workloads - exposing the edge to threats.
As companies expand their use of cloud computing beyond a few dozen applications to build the connective tissue between data centers and endpoints, their attack surface - the cloud edge - has grown.
But securing that edge can be difficult. While security and operations teams are used to applying security at the edge of their own networks, the cloud edge is not always theirs to manage. Communications between cloud workloads often traverse the public Internet, putting data at risk of interception and opening up new holes in an organization's attack surface, experts say.