March 6, 2024
In 2022 and 2023, the Cloud Security Alliance surveyed experts to identify the top cloud challenges and cloud threats, which it called the “Pandemic 11.” In an article for Dark Reading, DayBlink Consulting Partner and Cybersecurity Practice Lead Michael Morgenstern writes about 10 Essential processes for Reducing the Top 11 Cloud Risks. Although he states this list is neither exhaustive nor simple, these are some effective strategies that DayBlink Cyber Security practitioners have seen work effectively.
Morgenstern explains, “it’s an old trope by now that anyone not moving to the cloud is falling behind. As a result, cloud security has been on the list of “hot new trends” for the past few years with no sign of abating.
In 2020, the National Security Agency (NSA) suggested that cloud misconfigurations are by far the biggest threat to cloud security. Crowdstrike’s “2023 Global Threat Report” named “continued rise of cloud exploitation” as one of its top five themes for 2024. And Palo Alto Networks recently listed “cloud security and identity access management” as one of its top five concerns this year. Cloud migration and transformation are on every company’s agenda, even though cloud security is rarely funded sufficiently from the outset. (Apparently, we are destined to learn the same lessons over and over again).”
Read more here on Dark Reading: 10 Essential Processes for Reducing the Top 11 Cloud Risks