Question

any distributed application has a much greater attack sufarce than an application that is closely held on a local area network ​

Answer 1

Answer:

TRUE

Explanation:

any distributed application has a much greater attack surface than an application that is closely held on a local area network - This statement is TRUE.

Cloud computing will have all the vulnerabilities associated with Internet applications. Additional it will also have vulnerabilities arise from pooled, virtualized and outsourced resources. Below areas of cloud computing are troublesome:

1) Auditing

2) Data integrity

3) e-Discovery for legal compliance

4) Privacy

5) Recovery

6) Regulatory compliance

Answer 2

Answer:

The wrong statement is the “cloud computing does not have vulnerabilities associated with internet applications”.

The reason is that the cloud applications, which is a distributed application will have a much greater chance of getting attacked due to the reason it is not closed or secure network on the World Wide Web having vulnerable security.

Extra security measures must be in a place to ensure that the distributed system is not under attack.