95 percent of organizations suffer cloud breaches

New research from Tenable reveals that 95 percent of 600 organizations surveyed suffered a cloud-related breach in the previous 18 months. An additional 29 percent reported the breach caused 'significant' harm, which is defined as any adverse consequences to someone or an organization if the confidentiality of PII were breached. Of the organizations that had cloud-related breaches, 99 percent cite identities and permissions risk as the cause. Among security risks to their cloud infrastructure, respondents ranked insecure human/service identities and risky permissions (39 percent) as the top issue. Key challenges to securing identities and permissions included lack of visibility (53… [Continue Reading]