Analyzing 210,000 cloud accounts, Unit 42™ researchers found organizations are unwittingly giving adversaries opportunities to gain a foothold in the cloud.
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Research indicates misconfigurations and accelerated cloud adoptions leave orgs exposed to risk.
Threat actors have become adept at exploiting common, everyday issues in the cloud, such as misconfigurations, weak credentials, lack of authentication, unpatched vulnerabilities and malicious OSS packages.
60%
60% of organizations take longer than four days to resolve security issues.
76%
76% of organizations don’t enforce MFA for console users, and 58% of organizations don’t enforce MFA for root/admin users.
63%
63% of codebases in production have unpatched vulnerabilities rated high or critical.
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83%
83% of organizations have hard-coded credentials in their source control management systems.
51%
51% of codebases depend on more than 100 open-source packages.
80%
80% of alerts organizations receive are triggered by 5% of security rules.
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Threats don't go away — they evolve. Explore our Unit 42 “Cloud Threat Report” archive to see what was on our radar — and what remains in our sights.
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