Your Cloud Security Checklist Doesn't Work the Way You Think It Does
Summary: Intruder's 2026 Cloud Security Index analyzed misconfiguration data from 3,000 organizations across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud and found the providers' risk profiles have almost nothing in common. Weak IAM and missing logging affect 80% to 98% of accounts on every provider, but exposed services range from 76% on AWS to 8% on Google Cloud, and misconfigured services hit 80% of Azure accounts versus 37% on Google Cloud.
Bottom line: Weak IAM controls affect 98% of large enterprises, and in one cited incident an attacker moved from exposed credentials to administrative privileges in under 10 minutes, compromising 19 AWS principals - a single overprivileged identity is often all it takes to bypass controls hardened elsewhere.
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