In an era beset by hackers at every turn, it’s no small irony that the fastest growing security threat to business data might now be the self-inflicted wound of cloud service misconfiguration.
In the cloud, a misconfiguration is any mistake in the way a service has been set up that could leave the environment exposed to a breach. These types of errors have always been a part of corporate IT but in a corporate data center are usually no sweat. In the cloud, life is very different. Here, the effect of any mistakes is amplified, sometimes because it can be detected from the public side but also because of the way security controls work in the cloud.
