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loud services bring a momentous
opportunity to accelerate business through
their ability to quickly scale, allow us to be
agile with our resources and provide new
opportunities for collaboration.
As we all take advantage of the cloud, there’s one
thing we can’t forget – our data.
When using Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), we are
responsible for the security of our data and need
to ensure it is accessed appropriately. When using
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) or Platform-as-a-
Service (PaaS), we are additionally responsible for
the security of our workloads and need to ensure the
underlying application and infrastructure components
are not misconfigured.
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Through analysis of billions of anonymised cloud
events across a broad set of enterprise organisations,
we can determine the current state of how the cloud
is truly being used and where our risk lies.
Consider that nearly a quarter of data in the cloud
is sensitive and that sharing of sensitive data in the
cloud has increased 53% year-over-year. If we don’t
appropriately control access and protect our data
from threats, we put our enterprises at risk.
IaaS/PaaS providers like AWS are increasing the
productivity of our developers and making our
organisations extraordinarily agile. However,
organisations on average have at least 14
misconfigured IaaS instances running at any
given time, resulting in an average of 2,269
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