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Here are the most common cloud security issues. How many do you have?
45%
Misconfigured AWS Resources (Primarily RDS, Amazon Aurora, API Gateway)
70%
Misconfigured Azure Resources (Primarily Storage Account, Disks, WebApps)
63%
Misconfigured GCP Resources (Primarily Kubernetes Cluster, PostgreSQL, Storage, MySQL)
360K+
Public virtual machines (VMs) with no encryption on attached EBS volumes
50K+
Public VMs with destructive data permissions
15M
VMs with high and critical vulnerabilities
1M+
VMs led to privilege escalation
99%
VMs non-compliant with control for MFA delete on critical S3 buckets
3.9M+
VMs led to potential lateral movement
3M
VMs with at least one public exploit
14.7%
Vulnerabilities have public exploit with remote code execution (RCE)
98%
VMs non-compliant with control requiring monitoring of AWS organization changes
Source: Anonymized data from 44 million cloud VMs assessed by the Qualys Threat Research Unit in 2024.
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