Security News > 2021 > February > Top cloud infrastructure risks faced by real-world organizations

There's an increased adoption of managed infrastructure services and the emergence of new cloud watering hole attacks, Accurics reveals.

Cloud infrastructure risks Kubernetes users who try to implement role-based access controls often fail to define roles at the proper granularity.

While the average time to fix infrastructure misconfigurations was about 25 days, the most critical portions of the infrastructure often take the most time to fix - for example, load-balancing services take an average of 149 days to remedy.

Protecting cloud infrastructure requires a fundamentally new approach that embeds security earlier in the development lifecycle and maintains a secure posture throughout.

The cloud infrastructure must be continuously monitored in runtime for configuration changes and assessed for risk.

In situations where configuration change introduces a risk, the cloud infrastructure must be redeployed based on the secure baseline; this will ensure that any risky changes made accidentally or maliciously are automatically overwritten.

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