Security News > 2020 > July > Public cloud environments leave numerous paths open for exploitation

As organizations across industries rapidly deploy more assets in the public cloud with Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, they're leaving numerous paths open for exploitation, according to Orca Security.

While public cloud providers such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform keep their platforms secure, customers are still responsible for securing the workloads, data, and processes they run inside the cloud - just as they do in their on-prem world.

"It's imperative for organizations to have 100 percent public cloud visibility and know about all neglected assets, weak passwords, authentication issues, and misconfigurations to prioritize and fix. The Orca Security 2020 State of Public Cloud Security Report shows how just one gap in cloud coverage can lead to devastating data breaches."

Weak security authentication is another way that attackers breach public cloud environments.

24 percent have at least one cloud account that doesn't use multi-factor authentication for the super admin user; 19 percent have cloud assets accessible via non- corporate credentials.

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