Episode 5 — Identify high-probability cloud attacker goals, incentives, and target choices
This episode breaks down why cloud environments are targeted and what attackers most often try to achieve once they enter. You’ll map common goals—data theft, service disruption, cryptomining, persistence, and privilege expansion—to the incentives and constraints attackers face in public cloud. We’ll explore how target choices are driven by exposure, weak identity controls, and high-value data paths, and how those choices show up in logs and alert patterns. You’ll also learn how to use attacker goals to drive prioritization, such as protecting “keys to the kingdom” accounts, isolating sensitive datasets, and hardening pathways that enable rapid monetization. This perspective improves both exam reasoning and real-world triage when you need to decide what matters most first. Produced by BareMetalCyber.com, where you’ll find more cyber audio courses, books, and information to strengthen your educational path. Also, if you want to stay up to date with the latest news, visit DailyCyber.News for a newsletter you can use, and a daily podcast you can commute with.
