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crowdstrike.com
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https://www.crowdstrike.com/en-us/cybersecurity-101/cloud-security/cloud-vuln…
## #8: Human error
According to the Thales Global Cloud Security Study, human action was responsible for 44% of cloud data breaches reported incidents. These errors can take many forms, including misconfigurations and access management issues. Many of these vulnerabilities are caused by limited knowledge about security best practices or poor strategic planning.
To minimize this threat:
Train your DevOps team, sysadmins, and managers on cloud security best practices. [...] Cloud vulnerabilities are weaknesses, oversights, or gaps in cloud infrastructure that attackers or unauthorized users can exploit to gain access into an organization’s environment and potentially cause harm. [...] The top eight cloud vulnerabilities include:
Cloud misconfigurations
Insecure APIs
Lack of visibility
Shadow IT
Poor access management
Malicious insiders
Zero-day vulnerabilities
Human error
## #1: Cloud misconfigurations
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akamai.com
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https://www.akamai.com/glossary/what-is-cloud-vulnerability
A cloud vulnerability is a weakness or flaw in a system that can be exploited by cybercriminals to gain unauthorized access, steal data, or cause disruptions. These vulnerabilities can result from software bugs, misconfigurations, or inadequate security measures. Due to the shared nature of cloud infrastructure, a single vulnerability can impact multiple customers simultaneously, increasing the potential scale and impact of security incidents in cloud environments. Common vulnerabilities [...] Cloud computing has become an essential part of modern technology, offering many benefits in flexibility, cost savings, and scalability. However, along with these advantages come serious security risks and vulnerabilities. Cloud vulnerabilities are weaknesses in cloud systems or components that can lead to data breaches, cyberattacks, and other harmful consequences. Proactively addressing these vulnerabilities is crucial to keeping information and infrastructure safe in the cloud. [...] To address cloud vulnerabilities, security teams can deploy multiple levels of security solutions, strategies, and technologies. A comprehensive cloud vulnerability management approach is essential for proactively identifying, assessing, and remediating risks in cloud environments.
Properly configuring cloud resources
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cymulate.com
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https://cymulate.com/cybersecurity-glossary/cloud-security-management
Cloud security management is the practice of securing cloud-based data, applications and infrastructure through coordinated policies, controls and continuous oversight.
Cloud environments introduce distinct security challenges such as misconfigurations, identity misuse and limited visibility that require approaches beyond traditional IT security models. [...] A cloud data breach can have devastating consequences, including financial losses, reputational damage, legal liabilities and operational disruptions. In fact, as IBM reported, 82% of breaches in 2024 involved data stored in the cloud and cost enterprises an average of $4.88 million.
Security management in cloud computing is becoming a top concern for most organizations, which is understandable given the 75% increase in incidents in the past year alone, according to CrowdStrike. [...] ### 1. Misconfigurations and poor access control
Misconfigurations in cloud resources are a leading cause of data breaches. Common misconfigurations include publicly accessible storage buckets, improperly configured security groups and overly permissive Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies.
### 2. Insider threats and unauthorized access
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orca.security
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https://orca.security/resources/blog/cloud-data-security-risks-best-practices
Cloud data security is a discipline, a market category, and a class of solutions, including Data Security Posture Management (DSPM), that encompasses the policies, controls, and technologies used to protect data stored in or transmitted through cloud environments from unauthorized access, data breaches, exfiltration, and accidental exposure.
This definition has three operational components. [...] Cloud data security protects data at rest, in transit, and in use across cloud storage and compute services through encryption with customer-managed keys, least-privilege Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies, and continuous monitoring. [...] Set alerts on the specific access patterns that indicate data exfiltration: large S3 GetObject request volumes from unexpected principals, S3 bucket policy changes that reduce access restrictions, KMS key deletion or disable events, and RDS snapshot sharing with external account IDs. CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog should be integrated into the vulnerability monitoring process so that CVEs affecting cloud storage services are flagged immediately upon KEV listing. For a
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proofpoint.com
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https://www.proofpoint.com/us/threat-reference/cloud-security
Cloud security is essential in helping organizations address specific vulnerabilities and threats. Employee negligence or lack of training can create cloud security threats, such as oversharing files via public links that anyone can access. Data theft by insiders is also common. For example, salespeople leaving a company can steal data from cloud CRM services. [...] Cyber criminals often exploit vulnerabilities and weaknesses in cloud security to gain access to valuable data and assets. Once attackers access cloud account credentials, they impersonate legitimate users. They can trick your people into wiring money to them or releasing corporate data. They can also hijack email accounts to distribute spam and phishing emails. [...] In addition to the procedures that organizations implement internally, using the support of CASB can be an invaluable investment to reinforce cloud protection.
A CASB service provides four key types of cloud security system management:
### Cloud Security Threats & Vulnerabilities
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cloud.google.com
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https://cloud.google.com/learn/what-is-cloud-data-security
Cloud data security protects data that is stored (at rest) or moving in and out of the cloud (in motion) from security threats, unauthorized access, theft, and corruption. It relies on physical security, technology tools, access management and controls, and organizational policies.
## Why companies need cloud security [...] Inconsistent coverage. Many businesses are finding multicloud and hybrid cloud to better suit their business needs, but different providers offer varying levels of coverage and capabilities that can deliver inconsistent protection.
Growing cybersecurity threats. Cloud databases and cloud data storage make ideal targets for online criminals looking for a big payday, especially as companies are still educating themselves about data handling and management in the cloud. [...] With Google Cloud, security teams can implement powerful cloud data handling and security to improve their security posture and accelerate the delivery of security across their organizations.
Cloud Identity and Access Management
Centralized, fine-grained access control and visibility to manage all your cloud resources.
Cloud Key Management
Create, import, and manage cryptographic keys from one centralized cloud service.
Cloud Data Loss Prevention
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rsisinternational.org
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https://rsisinternational.org/journals/ijrias/articles/secure-data-management…
It is incumbent upon computer professionals who leverage CSP services to enhance consumer awareness regarding potential vulnerabilities and threats (Tazi et al., 2024). By doing so, users can make more informed decisions about how their information is stored and managed. In an environment where significant resources are concentrated, consumers naturally expect service providers to safeguard their operations and data against breaches, data loss, and unauthorized access (Barona & Anita, 2017; [...] This flowchart shows how a proposed future protocol for secure data management takes shape by first identifying current data‐security limitations, then outlining innovations that will lead to a secure storage system. One key branch examines emerging technologies such as preemptive data encryption, which enables data matching without fully decrypting the dataset, and compares this approach with classic searchable encryption to assess overall security. [...] the system solely against an adversary intent on reducing its security to that of standard searchable encryption does not adequately capture the full spectrum of its security properties (Gui, Paterson & Patranabis, 2023).
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coursera.org
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https://www.coursera.org/articles/cloud-data-security
Cloud data security relies on a “shared responsibility model,” which essentially means that the cloud service provider and the customer share responsibility for the cloud’s security. Typically, under this model, the provider takes responsibility for ensuring the safety and security of the actual infrastructure—such as the hardware, software, facilities, and networks—that runs the cloud service offering, and the customer takes responsibility for the security of the data and programs stored [...] When evaluating a system’s security, cybersecurity professionals rely on a framework known as the “CIA triad,” an acronym that stands for confidentiality, integrity, and availability. According to this framework, a secure cloud data storage platform should keep sensitive data private, consist of reliable information that users can trust, and reliably provide data to privileged users when they need it. Furthermore, none of these elements should compromise one another. [...] Just as with on-premise platforms and databases, cloud-based platforms and storage solutions can hold all kinds of data types, from big data to business-specific internal records, that can be used to identify trends and patterns and generate actionable insights. This also means that cloud platforms face many of the same security threats that traditional, on-premise ones do – along with some new ones.