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CLOUD SECURITY ALLIANCE The Notorious Nine: Cloud Computing Top Threats in 2013 
4.0 Top Threat: Insecure Interfaces and 
APIs 
Cloud computing providers expose a set of software interfaces or APIs that 
customers use to manage and interact with cloud services.  Provisioning, 
management, orchestration, and monitoring are all performed using these 
interfaces.  The security and availability of general cloud services is dependent 
upon the security of these basic APIs.  From authentication and