Cloud Misconfigurations Deserve a Place Beside Vulnerabilities in Your Risk Strategy
Vulnerability management has been used to assess cyber risk for years. You keep tabs on your CVEs, manage patching, and calculate remediation times. All are useful, but they don't give you the entire picture.
Cloud environments have changed infrastructure risk. Today, you provision resources through code, deploy changes continuously, and operate across multiple cloud platforms. The greatest risks do not always come from software flaws; many stem from how infrastructure is configured.
As you expand your cloud footprints, cloud misconfiguration security has become a strategic security discipline. The challenge is recognizing these exposures before attackers do.
Why are misconfigurations exposures?
The word "misconfiguration" makes the problem sound minor. It suggests an administrative oversight or a simple error that can be fixed later.
However, a misconfiguration often creates a direct path into your environment.
There are many opportunities for attackers. Exposed storage buckets, overly permissive IAM roles, disabled audit logging, or...
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