3 years ago

Misconfigurations are a major security concern when running business applications in the public cloud. Errors in how infrastructure, applications and policies are set up can have significantly different impacts, but they all get labeled under the heading of “misconfiguration.”

One in every 2.5 security pros concerned about these types of misconfigurations actually saw their fears come true in the last 12 months with an insecure interface or API being exploited.

For breaches that impacted business applications running in a public cloud, privileged user abuse and unauthorized applications were much less likely to be underlying causes. That’s good news for everyone except for investors in companies in the identity and role-based management space.