The public cloud is more secure than your data center yet another breach shows that good security practices applied to the public cloud are the best data defense.
Public cloud security breaches.
Hosting the right internal discussions and having the proper considerations reduces the risk of misconfigurations when moving data and applications to the cloud.
The most common cause of public cloud security breaches were system misconfigurations and flaws in firewall applications which were exploited in 66 of public cloud security incidents and allowed cybercriminals to gain access to sensitive data over the internet.
Hackers reportedly gained access to the information after striking a database left unprotected on an amazon cloud server.
According to forbes residential addresses ethnicity earnings and other personal details were included.
April has certainly come in like a lion with two high profile data breaches.
Many breaches occurring today are applications that reside in the cloud and often explained as a misconfiguration on the customer side.
Let s cover some of the major reported cases and draw a few insightful conclusions for the future.
Pro wrestling giant wwe was recently the victim of a security breach leaked personal data for 3 million customers.
The year 2019 has been marred with several reported incidents of cloud security breaches.
It was revealed in the security analysis that more than 137gb of data was available for public access and some of the data might have been siphoned by hackers to post on the dark web.
Worldwide 96 were concerned about the current level of their public cloud security according to the report.
Both users and cloud.
Top 5 cloud security related data breaches.
A recent study from u k based sophos indicates that public cloud security incidents were becoming disturbingly frequent since the start of 2020.
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Major cloud security breaches of 2019.
44 of attacks involved misconfigured web application firewalls and 22 were due.
Poor security practices complicated controls and rushed technology programs are causing a rash of data breaches stemming from the use of cloud services experts say.
Public cloud security breaches on worrying uptick.
Amongst the 70 that experienced a security breach half suffered a malware of some form.
