"Over 98 Percent of Organizations Have Misconfigured Clouds"

A new survey conducted by Zscaler reveals that 98.6 percent of organizations have misconfigured settings in their cloud environments that pose critical risks to their data and infrastructure. Cloud misconfiguration errors associated with public access to storage buckets, account permissions, password storage, and more have exposed billions of records, according to Zscaler's research. Zscaler found that 55.1 percent of organizations use more than one cloud provider, and 66.7 percent of organizations use public cloud storage buckets, which exacerbates the problem. There are issues regarding access to systems, as 97.1 percent of organizations that use privileged user access controls without multi-factor authentication (MFA) enabled have compromised accounts. With about 25 percent of data breaches beginning with a phishing attack, and scams becoming more difficult to detect due to their growing sophistication, enterprises need to strengthen their access controls. This article continues to discuss key findings from Zscaler's new Cloud (In)Security Report.

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