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CLOUD SECURITY ALLIANCE The Notorious Nine: Cloud Computing Top Threats in 2013 
1.0 Top Threat: Data Breaches 
It’s every CIO’s worst nightmare: the organization’s sensitive internal data falls 
into the hands of their competitors.  While this scenario has kept executives 
awake at night long before the advent of computing, cloud computing 
introduces significant new avenues of attack.  In November 2012, researchers 
from the University of North Carolina, the University 