Security News > 2021 > July > Exposing the latest cloud threats affecting enterprises

Netskope revealed new research showing the continued growth of malware delivered by cloud applications and also the potential for critical data exfiltration tied to employees departing their jobs, among a range of increasing cloud application security risks.

The findings are part of the July 2021 Netskope Cloud and Threat Report, the latest installment of Netskope Threat Labs' biannual research analyzing critical trends in enterprise cloud service and app use, web and cloud-enabled threats, and cloud data migrations and transfers.

The report found that some departing employees present disproportionately significant cloud security risks.

In their last 30 days of employment, workers have been proven to be uploading three times more data than usual to personal cloud apps.

97% of cloud apps used in the enterprise are shadow IT, unmanaged and often freely adopted.

Cloud-delivered malware has increased to an all-time high of 68% with cloud storage apps accounting for nearly 67% of that cloud malware delivery and malicious Office docs now accounting for 43% of all malware downloads.

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