USING DIGITAL RISK PROTECTION PLATFORM IN TIMES OF CRISES
THE MOST COMMON DATA SECURITY CHALLENGES
Many organizations can't delineate where cloud service provider (CSP) responsibilities end and their own responsibilities begin, opening them to numerous vulnerabilities. The increased expansiveness of the cloud also increases an organization's potential attack surface. To further complicate the matter, traditional security controls often don't fulfill cloud security needs.
To help companies understand the cloud challenges they're up against, the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) went directly to the professionals. A working group of practitioners, architects, developers and C-level staff identified a list of about 25 security threats, which were then analyzed by security professionals who ranked them and narrowed them down further to the 11 most common cloud security challenges:
Data breaches, Misconfigurations & Inadequate Change Control, Lack of Cloud Security Architecture & Strategy,
Insufficient Identity, Credential, Access & Key Management, Account Hijacking, Insider Threats,
Insecure Interfaces & APIs, Weak Control Plane, Metastructure & Applistructure Failures, Limited Cloud Usage Visibility,
Abuse & Nefarious Use of Cloud Services.