Security News > 2020 > August > Study finds misconfigured cloud storage services in 93% of cloud deployments analyzed
An Accurics study said cloud breaches will likely increase in velocity and scale as more enterprises move to the cloud.
The study found that misconfigured cloud storage services were increasingly commonplace in 93% of cloud deployments that were analyzed.
Their findings indicate that one in two deployments had unprotected credentials stored in container configuration files, and these keys and credentials could give attackers access to sensitive cloud resources.
"An analysis of the breach revealed that a test cloud environment was created and a compute resource was misconfigured which exposed it to the internet. That compute instance contained a hardcoded API key which was discovered by the attackers and used to access the database," the study said.
"The adoption of cloud native infrastructure such as serverless, containers, and service mesh are enabling organizations to deliver new innovations to market. Unfortunately, over 30 billion records have been exposed as a result of cloud infrastructure misconfigurations over the last two years, and the velocity of cloud breaches continue to increase," Moolchandani said in the report.