Organizations’ use of the cloud is increasing, but this is contributing to a rise in the volume of cloud security incidents. In the 2022 Cloud Security Report, 98% of organizations told Check Point they use the cloud to host business applications and store data. But more than a quarter (27%) of respondents revealed they had suffered a security incident in their cloud environments in the last year. Of those events, 23% resulted from a cloud misconfiguration.
This is why the Center for Internet Security (CIS) continues to partner with cloud service providers (CSPs) like Microsoft Azure to provide security hardening guidelines for cloud-based systems.
