For the “Public Cloud Infrastructure Security Trends” report, the RedLock Cloud Security Intelligence team analyzed its customers’ cloud infrastructure environments and reviewed vulnerabilities in public cloud infrastructure.
Here are four things to know.
1. The team found 4.8 million records — including protected health information and personally identifiable information — have been exposed thus far in 2017.
2. The majority (82 percent) of databases in public cloud computing environments are not encrypted. The percentage includes databases like Amazon Relational Database Service and Amazon RedShift.
3. Thirty-one percent of unencrypted databases accepted inbound connection requests from other services on the internet.
4. Forty percent of organizations using cloud storage services unintentionally exposed at least one of its services to the public due to misconfiguration.
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