Look, I’ve been in cybersecurity for over a decade, and I’m tired of seeing the same preventable disasters over and over again. Cloud security breaches aren’t happening because of some sophisticated nation-state actor using a zero-day exploit. They’re happening because someone forgot to flip a switch or left a door unlocked.
The numbers are frankly depressing. According to Verizon’s latest Data Breach Investigations Report, misconfiguration errors account for more than 65% of all cloud-related security incidents. IBM puts the average cost of a misconfiguration-related breach at $4.88 million. But here’s what really gets me — these aren’t just statistics. Behind every one of these numbers is a real company that had to explain to its customers why their personal data was sitting on the internet for anyone to grab.