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TRENDING
NEW MCAFEE REPORT
REVEALS DATA IN THE CLOUD
MORE EXPOSED THAN
ORGANISATIONS THINK
New research from McAfee has revealed that sensitive
information stored in the cloud, SaaS collaboration and
IaaS/PaaS configuration mistakes, along with cloud
threats, are at all-time highs – creating significant risks
to enterprise data.
M
cAfee, the device to cloud
cybersecurity company, has
released its Cloud Adoption and
Risk Report, which analysed billions of events
in anonymised customers’ production cloud
use to assess the current state of cloud
deployments and to uncover risks. The report
revealed that nearly a quarter of the data
in the cloud can be categorised as sensitive,
putting an organisation at risk if stolen or
leaked. Coupled with the fact that sharing
sensitive data in the cloud has increased
53% year-on-year, those who do not
adopt a cloud strategy that includes data
loss protection, configuration audits and
collaboration controls will endanger
the security of their most valuable asset
– data – while exposing themselves to
increased risk of non-compliance with
internal and external regulations.
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The study found that while organisations
aggressively use the public cloud to create
new digital experiences for their customers,
the average enterprise experiences more than
2,200 misconfiguration incidents per month
in their infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and
platform-as-a-service (PaaS) instances.
Cloud service providers only cover the
security of the cloud itself, not customer
data or customer use of their infrastructure
and platforms. Companies are always
responsible for securing their data wherever
it is, hence highlighting the need to deploy
cloud security solutions that span the whole
cloud spectrum, from SaaS (software-as-a-
service) to IaaS and PaaS.
“Operating in the cloud has become the
norm for organisations, so much so that our
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THE REPORT
REVEALED
THAT NEARLY
A QUARTER OF
THE DATA IN THE
CLOUD CAN BE
CATEGORISED
AS SENSITIVE,
PUTTING AN
ORGANISATION AT
RISK IF STOLEN
OR LEAKED.
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