McAfee report points to 630 percent increase in attacks aimed at cloud services since January 2020. McAfee: Cloud workloads have never been more attractive to malicious actors. Cloud environments are complex, consisting of thousands of assets from different vendors where each have different defaults and methods for setting authorizations. Cloud security requires rigorous education and inspection to ensure that authorizations are configured only after having a complete understanding of the risks, McAfee says. The traditional approach of monitoring to check for anomalies is by. not enough, security teams need to prevent default loose. permissions and misconfigurations.
Source: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2021/06/18/security-experts-cloud/