alt Hacker News> It's simple, you increase your attack surface, and the effort and expertise needed to mitigate that.
Sure, but opening up one port is a much smaller surface than exposing yourself to a whole cloud hosting company.
> It's simple, you increase your attack surface, and the effort and expertise needed to mitigate that.
Sure, but opening up one port is a much smaller surface than exposing yourself to a whole cloud hosting company.
Ah… I really could not disagree more with that statement. I know we don’t want to trust BigCorp and whatnot, but a single exposed port and an incomplete understanding of what you’re doing is really all it takes to be compromised.