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What's the worst that can happen in a on-premises attack, Vs the worst that could happen if AWS was hacked?

The amount of financial data that could be exploited at once is magnitudes larger in a popular cloud. I don't think it's strange that a regulator might look at that failure point with some trepidation.




On the other hand, at least AWS, Azure etc. all have a vested interest in doing things well and securely. At a bank, most employees know nothing and care nothing about the HW and SW systems, they just use and abuse them.


Why do you think banks don't have vested interest?

And I don't expect my cleaner to service my car. Banks have DBAs, network and physical security experts on tap (just like cloud providers do).


Well they do have the vested interest but they are predictably irrational in another one - trying to make more money and cutting costs from "non-core businesses". It isn't rational but certain sorts of predictable stupidity are more common in some contexts than others.




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