According to a 2023 survey of cybersecurity professionals, 65 percent of respondents worldwide considered misconfiguration of the cloud platform as the biggest security threat in public clouds. Exfiltration of sensitive data ranked second, according to 54 percent of respondents. Foreign state-sponsored cyber attacks constituted the main security threat in public clouds for 34 percent of respondents.
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Cybersecurity Insiders. (September 14, 2023). What do you see as the biggest security threats in public clouds? [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 21, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1423855/top-security-threats-in-public-clouds/
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