Highlights from the Unit 42 Cloud Threat Report, 1H 2021
Summary: Unit 42's 1H 2021 Cloud Threat Report analyzed data from hundreds of cloud accounts worldwide between October 2019 and February 2021, finding that security incidents rose 402% in retail, 230% in manufacturing and 205% in government. The report also found that 30% of organizations host sensitive data in the cloud without proper security controls, mostly due to a lack of effective access-control restrictions, while organizations showing signs of cryptojacking activity fell to 17% from December 2020 through February 2021, down from 23% the prior quarter.
Bottom line: Three in ten organizations are storing personally identifiable information and other critical assets in the cloud with no effective access controls in place, and the industries hit hardest were the same ones under the most pressure to scale during the pandemic.
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