Security News > 2020 > February > Cloud-enabled threats are on the rise, sensitive data is moving between cloud apps

"We are seeing increasingly complex threat techniques being used across cloud applications, spanning from cloud phishing and malware delivery, to cloud command and control and ultimately cloud data exfiltration," said Ray Canzanese, Threat Research Director at Netskope.

"Our research shows the sophistication and scale of the cloud enabled kill chain increasing, requiring security defenses that understand thousands of cloud apps to keep pace with attackers and block cloud threats. For these reasons, any enterprise using the cloud needs to modernize and extend their security architectures."

The data crosses many boundaries: moving between cloud app suites, between managed and unmanaged apps, between app categories, and between app risk levels.

37% of the data that users move across cloud apps is sensitive.

In total, lateral data movement has been tracked among 2,481 different cloud services and apps, indicating the scale and the variety of cloud use across which sensitive information is being dispersed.

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