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Security Think Tank: Stopping data leaks in the cloud

November 21, 2019

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It seems that rarely a day goes by that an organisation isn’t pulled up for a data leak, and often the culprit is misconfigured cloud environments. This is an issue that seems to transcend business size, sophistication and industry.

In the past few months alone we have seen recruitment companies, major hotel chains and even Facebook fall foul of misconfiguration errors that have left very sensitive data open to potential abuse.

This issue hasn’t passed security professionals by – according to a recent report, 62% of cyber security and IT professionals described misconfiguration as the biggest threat to cloud security.

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