Misconfiguration still remains the number one cause of data breaches in the cloud because change control is so challenging in this environment. It routinely tops the leader board of the Cloud Security Alliance and was top in the State of the Cloud Security 2021 report while the Cloud Configuration Risks Exposed report found 90 per cent of organisations are vulnerable to security breaches due to cloud misconfigurations.
It’s also a growing problem. An IBM study found of the more than 8.5 billion breached records reported in 2019, seven billion of those, or over 85%, were due to misconfigured cloud servers and other improperly configured systems compared to 2018 when these records made up less than 50 per cent.
