Users of cloud computing resources have a tendency to make the same mistakes repeatedly, with the vast majority – approximately 80% – of alerts seen by security teams triggered by a scant 5% of security rules, according to findings set out in a report compiled by Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 research unit.
In Cloud threat report, navigating the expanding attack surface – the seventh in an ongoing series – Unit 42 analysed workloads drawn from 210,000 cloud accounts across 1,200 different organisations and examined multiple real-world security incidents that arose through cloud environments.
