Cloud Pain Points

A brief but nice summary of pain points we have all experienced?

  • Insufficient staff skills
  • Data loss/leakage
  • API vulnerabilities
  • Malware infections
  • Insufficient identity and access management controls
  • Lack of visibility into what data and workloads are within cloud applications
  • Inability to monitor data in transit to and from cloud applications
  • Cloud applications being provisioned outside of IT visibility (e.g., shadow IT)
  • Inability to prevent malicious insider theft or misuse of data
  • Advanced threats and attacks against the cloud application provider
  • Inability to assess the security of the cloud application provider’s operations
  • Vendors failing to alert customers of vulnerabilities
  • Inability to maintain regulatory compliance
  • Misconfigurations of cloud hardware and/or cloud software

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