Security News > 2022 > April > The two words you should never forget when you’re securing a cloud

While the details vary by service, the concept is basically the same: you remain responsible for maintaining general security hygiene, ensuring the cloud security controls are properly configured, and protecting your data on the system.

Over the course of two decades, cloud computing has transformed the way people use the internet for work and play.

This massive degree of adoption requires any organization that utilizes the cloud in any way to face some hard truths about what the cloud means for security.

What unites all these cloud flavors are those two magic words: shared responsibility.

Another significant risk is that data can be accessed by other applications and services that are connected to SaaS cloud via APIs.

Phishing and ransomware attacks conducted via cloud services are real risks that will only increase as cloud services become more and more ingrained in our lives.

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