Misconfigurations put enterprise cloud data at risk

While organizations are increasingly using 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. This is among the findings of McAfee's latest Cloud Adoption and Risk Report which also finds that 21 percent of data in the cloud can now be classed as 'sensitive', putting the business at risk if it's stolen or leaked. Enterprise organizations have an average of 14 misconfigured IaaS/PaaS instances running at one time, and 5.5 percent of AWS S3 buckets have world read permissions,… [Continue Reading]