98.6% of companies have misconfigurations in their cloud environments

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While the convenience and ease of public cloud technology has had a major impact on enabling scalable business operations to work from anywhere and increase productivity everywhere, the risks around using cloud technology are still slowly being realised and calculated by many organisations as they experience related attacks.

That is according to the Cloud (In)Security research from Zscaler Threatlabz, which analyses cloud workload statistics from over 260 billion daily...

Misconfiguration was the number one cause of cloud-security incidents in 2021

As organisations continue to adopt the cloud, with 35% running more than 50% of their workloads on the likes of Azure, AWS and GCP, they struggle to manage the complexity of securing their cloud infrastructures across multiple cloud platforms, while also suffering a cyber-skills and knowledge shortage.

This is one of the key findings from the 2022 Cloud Security Report from cybsersecurity solutions provider Check Point Software Technologies.

The global report, based on a...