Cloud Adoption
and Risk Report
LATEST INTELLIGENCE
2019
CLOUD ADOPTION AND RISK
REPORT 2019
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Executive Summary
Cloud services bring a momentous opportunity to
accelerate business through their ability to quickly
scale, allow us to be agile with our resources, and
provide new opportunities for collaboration. As we
all take advantage of the cloud, there’s one thing we
can’t forget – our data. When using software-as-a-
service (SaaS) we are responsible for the security of our
data, and need to ensure it is accessed appropriately.
When using infrastructure-as a-service (IaaS) or
platform-as-a-service (PaaS), we are additionally
responsible for the security of our workloads, and need
to ensure the underlying application and infrastructure
components are not misconfigured.
Through analysis of billions of anonymized cloud
events across a broad set of enterprise organizations*,
we can determine the current state of how the
cloud is truly being used, and where our risk lies.
Consider that nearly a quarter of data in the cloud
is sensitive, and that sharing of sensitive data in the
cloud has increased 53% year-over-year. If we don’t
appropriately control access and protect our data
from threats, we put our enterprises at risk.
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IaaS/PaaS providers like AWS are increasing the
productivity of our developers and making our
organizations extraordinarily agile. However
organizations on average have at least 14
misconfigured IaaS instances running at any
given time, resulting in an average of 2,269
misconfiguration incidents per month.
Prominently, 5.5% of all AWS S3 buckets in use are
misconfigured to be publicly readable. We can see
the risk of immediate and grand-scale loss of data
starting to grow with these trends.
We need to get the basics right, or face losing the
opportunity for business acceleration before the gas
pedal can hit the floor. The majority of threats to
data in the cloud result from compromised accounts
and insider threats.
80% of organizations are going to experience at
least 1 compromised account threat in the cloud this
month. 92% currently have stolen cloud credentials
for sale on the Dark Web. Fortunately, the cloud is still
bringing more opportunities than threats. Cloud use
is extremely broad, with most organizations using
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