Identity and access management a major concern for cloud deployments

According to a new report, 71.5 percent of violations on AWS occur around identity and access management (IAM). The study from cloud security company Netskope analyzed the Center for Internet Security's Benchmarks for AWS. Many of the IAM violations found involve instance rules, role-based access controls, and access to resources or password policy requirements -- things that enterprises can easily address even without an external security solution. Additional benchmark violations were found in monitoring (19 percent), networking (5.9 percent) and logging (3.6 percent). Looking at data loss prevention (DLP) violations, uploads make up the majority with 55.3 percent, followed by… [Continue Reading]