As cloud adoption grows globally with the market projected to be worth $180 billion by 2020, organizations are increasingly turning to hybrid cloud infrastructures which incorporate both public and private clouds. However, this expansion creates new security challenges as threats like identity theft, data breaches, insecure APIs, system vulnerabilities, account hijacking, and denial of service attacks threaten customer data and systems. As such, experts recommend companies develop a comprehensive cloud security strategy to safely harness the benefits of hybrid cloud computing.