Cloud tech is inexpensive, easy to use, but has risks

Hacking and downtime are big concerns

By Yashaswini Sri

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Ermetic, the cloud access risk security company, announced the results of a study conducted by the global intelligence firm IDC, which found that nearly 80 per cent of the companies surveyed had experienced at least one cloud data breach in the past 18 months, the Business Wire reported.Forty-three per cent of the companies reported 10 or more breaches.

The 300 chief information security officers who participated in the survey said security misconfiguration (67 per cent), lack of adequate visibility into access settings and activities (64 per cent) and identity and access management permission errors (61 per cent) were their top concerns associated with cloud environments. This survey resulted in drafting solutions

Meanwhile, 80 per cent reported they were unable to identify access to sensitive data in IaaS

(Infrastructure as a Service), PaaS (Platform as a Service)environments. The 2020 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report said hacking ranked higher than misconfiguration errors as source of data breaches.

Hari Kiran, an automation and development operations engineer at Axiomio Solutions explained: “Cloud computing is where the data, applications and servers are stored and hosted over the Internet using cloud platforms. It is less expensive compared to on-premise deployment. One of its main benefits is