The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), a
not-for-profit organization which promotes the use of best practices for
providing security assurance within cloud computing, today announced that
the CSA Software Defined Perimeter (SDP) has prevailed at the close of its
second Hackathon, which kicked off at CSA Congress 2014 on September
18. In the past month, billions of packets were fired by
individuals, including many security experts, from more than 100 countries, but
none succeeded in the attempt to breach the SDP protected public cloud.
A full report
with detailed attack analysis will be published in November.
Attack
statistics as of day 14 of the event are as follows:
- Total
dropped packets: 2.9 billion
- Number
successful Single Packet Authorizations: 0
- Number
successful mutual TLS authentications: 0
- Number
successful user authentications: 0
For
additional information on the Hackathon please refer to Software Defined Perimeter
(SDP) Prevailing after Hackathon Kickoff at Cloud Security Alliance Congress
2014
Last month, CSA invited
hackers from all over the world to attempt to access a
file server in a public cloud protected by the SDP, via a different public
cloud. The first participant to successfully capture the target
information on the protected file server would receive a cash prize.