The Risk of Exposed Cloud Functions and How to Harden
Mandiant highlights that publicly exposed, unauthenticated cloud functions remain one of the most frequent assessment findings—offering a practical hardening guide that maps well to European multi-cloud estates.
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Written by: Corné de Jong Introduction Mandiant security assessments frequently identify publicly exposed serverless applications that lack authentication, often as a result of specific business requirements. Serverless deployments typically run custom-developed code that incorporates third-party packages, making them targets for a wide range of application-level attacks, including: Local and Remote File Inclusion (LFI/RFI) Command Injection Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities can g
Editorial Analysis
With European enterprises accelerating serverless adoption, unauthenticated cloud functions represent low-hanging fruit for attackers and a compliance blind spot.
Run automated scans for publicly exposed serverless endpoints and enforce authentication-by-default policies in infrastructure-as-code templates.
Mandiant data shows unauthenticated serverless functions are among the most common cloud misconfigurations, posing direct data-exposure risk.
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