Cloud adoption is not slowing down, and neither is the cloud threat landscape. Among many other benefits, the cloud offers increased productivity and flexibility, as well as reduced infrastructural costs.

However, despite delivering many goodies, API endpoints hosted in the cloud can be susceptible to at least 12 security issues. These issues can come in different forms, tackling them requires diverse approaches and concepts. Experts argue that one solution to such cloud security challenges is having a comprehensive cloud security posture management in place.

Franklin Okeke, writing for TechRepublic Premium, looks at the best practices for an effective CSPM, emphasizing how organizations can achieve cloud visibility and compliance through continuous monitoring and cloud hardening.

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CLOUD SECURITY THREAT LANDSCAPE: THE COMPELLING CASE FOR CSPM

Human error

IT teams are also prone to human error, which can introduce cloud security risks to company infrastructure. These errors may be unintentional actions or lack of actions on the side of an employee or user. CrowdStrike noted that 60% of container workloads observed in their cloud risk report lacked properly configured security protections. More than one-third (36%) of detected misconfigurations had insecure cloud provider default settings, all due to human errors.

It is important to note that the majority of cloud security providers operate on a shared security responsibility model, which means that the cloud provider’s responsibility ends with their infrastructure. Everything else you bring into their cloud environment is your responsibility. This led to Gartner stating that by 2025, about 99% of cloud security failures will be the customer’s fault.

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