Predicting that more enterprises will suffer a cloud data breach in 2022 is not exactly going out on a limb. Migrating IT systems and applications out of the data center to cloud computing platforms is a tenet of an effective digital transformation strategy. But in their rush to the cloud, too many organizations fail to identify the security risks that are unique to cloud computing, primarily misconfigurations.
In the past year, 36% of companies suffered a serious cloud security leak or breach due to cloud misconfiguration, according to Fugue’s State of Cloud Security 2021 Report. And Gartner expects that through 2023, at least 99% of cloud security failures will be the customer’s fault, mainly in the form of cloud resource misconfiguration.
However, there’s reason for optimism in the new year: These vulnerabilities are 100% preventable. Mounting an effective defense against hackers constantly on the hunt for cloud misconfigurations requires security professionals to go beyond the traditional tools and methodologies they have long relied on to secure data centers.
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