INFOGRAPHIC of companies surveyed having experienced at least one security incident in their public cloud environment . Gartner anticipated that over 99 % of cloud breaches will have a root cause of customer misconfiguration .
Some blind spots the Vectra report uncovered include :
• 30 % of organisations surveyed have no formal signoff before pushing to production
• 40 % of respondents say they do not have a DevSecOps workflow
• 71 % of organisations say that 10 or more people can modify the entire infrastructure in their AWS environments , creating numerous attack vectors for hackers
Despite these blind spots , the survey showed that companies are taking security seriously . Over half of the companies reported having double-digit Security Operations Centre ( SOC ) headcounts , showing a significant investment in keeping their organisations secure .
Matt Pieklik , Senior Consulting Analyst at Vectra , said : “ Securing the cloud with confidence is nearly impossible due to its ever-changing nature . To address this , companies need to limit the number of attack vectors malicious actors are able to take . This means creating formal sign-off processes , creating
DevSecOps workflows and limiting the number of people that have access to their entire infrastructure as much as possible . Ultimately , companies need
to provide security holistically across regions and automate as many activities as possible to enhance their effectiveness .”
Vectra has answered this industry need through the creation of Detect for AWS which reduces risk of cloud services being exploited , detects threats against AWS services and automatically responds to attacks against applications running in AWS . p
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