There has been a remarkable shift in cloud adoption as businesses worldwide move their operations to the cloud. However, you don’t need to believe us—29% of organisations anticipate moving 75% of their workloads to the cloud in the coming months. Read More: https://instasafe.com/blog/top-10-cloud-security-issues-you-should-know/

1. TOP 10
CLOUD
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2. 01INSECUREAPI /INTERFACES
Cloud service providers provide numerous
interfaces and APIs to their organizations that are
well-documented so that organizations can access
and use them with ease.
If not properly secured, these interfaces create
potential risks as cybercriminals can easily use the
documentation made for the organizations to access
and exploit sensitive data and information in the
cloud environment.
02UNAUTHORISEDACCESS
Any organization’s cloud-based deployments
and operations are present outside the
network perimeter and can be easily
accessed via the public internet.
It makes it effortless for attackers to
leverage unauthorized access to the cloud
resources.
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3. 03MISCONFIGURATION
Misconfigured cloud security settings result in data
breaches. Unfortunately, many organizations still rely
on traditional security solutions - compromising
secure cloud applications and the security posture of
the cloud environment.
These traditional solutions don’t offer much control
to the organizations over cloud security settings.
Moreover, many organizations are unfamiliar with
settings - leading to misconfiguration and data
breach vulnerabilities.
04LACKOFVISIBILITY
Traditional solutions like VPNs don’t meet
the needs of modern enterprises and offer a
lack of visibility to the organizations over the
network, resource usage, and user activity.
This limits organizations’ ability to monitor
their resources and protect them against
online attacks.
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4. 05ACCOUNTHIJACKS
Extremely weak password security and easy-to-
guess employee passwords are other common cloud
security issues.
They result in data breaches and phishing attacks
because of weak employee credentials - enabling a
single password to be used for several other
accounts.
06INTERNALFRAUD
Malicious insider threats are other
significant security issues for organizations.
These malicious internal users already
possess unauthorized access to the network
and its sensitive resources, making them
more difficult to detect - especially with
traditional cloud solutions.
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5. 07EXTERNALDATASHARING
Cloud makes data sharing a breeze with external or
third-party entities - another major security concern.
The link-based sharing that facilitates collaboration
also makes it easier for the attackers to gain access
as the link can be forwarded, stolen, and, once
compromised, the data cannot be revoked easily.
08CYBERCRIMINALATTACKS
Cybercriminals target specific organizations
depending on the expected ransom or
profitability they’d receive from the attacks.
Cloud-based environment is accessible
through the public internet and contains a
lot of sensitive data that is often improperly
secured and configured - resulting in
cyberattacks and compromising cloud
access security.
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6. Sattacks
Denial of Service (DoS) attacks are often targeted at a
group of organizations and companies that work
together collaboratively.
Thus, a successful DoS attack against a cloud
infrastructure is likely to impact multiple
organizations - allowing attackers to demand high
ransom to stop the attack and posing a great deal of
threat to their cloud resources.
10ABUSEOFCLOUDSERVICES
Nefarious use of PaaS, SaaS, and IaaS
services directly affects cloud customers,
organizations, employees, and providers.
Compromises due to brute force attacks,
phishing, and click frauds incur expenses,
including data loss.
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7. ZEROTRUSTTOENSUREHIGHCLOUD
SECURITY
Some benefits of Zero Trust to ensure cloud
security:
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Offers role-based access controls to the users
and employees
Provides granular-level visibility across the
network to monitor network traffic
Extends on-premise security and seamlessly
integrates with compliance and data protection
solutions.
Simplifies managing cloud assets from a standard
dashboard and eliminates complexities.
Offers secure cloud access from remote
locations.
Reduces operational expenses.
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8. InstaSafe empowers organizations in their
digital transformation journey, by enabling
secure access of enterprise applications to
users, with enhanced security, seamless
experience, and minimal risk.
As an industry pioneer in Zero Trust, human-
centric solutions, we, at InstaSafe have backed
the belief that at the center of security for
businesses, lies the ability to enable
workforces to unleash their potential,
irrespective of where they are. Which is why
we help organizations in fulfilling their goal of
productivity on scale, by simplifying the
challenge of ACCESS.
With our hyperscalable and modular
solutions, we aim to make the cloud and
remote journey for businesses and
workforces, much simpler, and
much more secure.
WE ARE INSTASAFE
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