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Top 7 Cloud Storage Security Issues & Risks (+ Mitigations)

eSecurity Planet

Availability & Reliability Cloud storage service outages affect business operations and hinder access to crucial data. Downtime limits incident response, increases the risk of data breaches, and can be used as leverage for DDoS attacks. Regular reviews, enhanced analytics, and incident response methods improve security.

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Multi-Tenancy Cloud Security: Definition & Best Practices

eSecurity Planet

Top 5 Multi-Tenant Security Risks & Issues While multi-tenancy provides considerable benefits to both cloud providers and customers, it also poses significant security and privacy risks. These flaws can be exploited in a variety of ways, including weak passwords, software flaws, and social engineering attacks.

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How Secure Is Cloud Storage? Features, Risks, & Protection

eSecurity Planet

Cloud Storage Security Risks Despite its obvious benefits, cloud storage still faces common challenges, including misconfiguration, data breaches, insecure interface, unauthorized access, DDoS attacks, insider threats, lack of control, encryption problems, patching issues, compliance, and monitoring issues.

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People are the new perimeter: how to protect the human layer

SC Magazine

With most employees continuing to work remotely some or all of the time, and with many operating in stressful and distracting environments, human-activated data breaches have skyrocketed. There’s really no arguing anymore: People have become the company’s security perimeter. People get hacked.

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Cybersecurity Management Lessons from Healthcare Woes

eSecurity Planet

Ransomware attacks and data breaches make headlines when they shut down huge connected healthcare providers such as Ascension Healthcare or Change Healthcare. Examining the available details of these breaches will help you learn key lessons from their pain to avoid suffering the same humiliating and expensive situations.

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What Is a SaaS Security Checklist? Tips & Free Template

eSecurity Planet

This framework guarantees that appropriate authentication measures, encryption techniques, data retention policies, and backup procedures are in place. Common threats include misconfigurations, cross-site scripting attacks, and data breaches. Is data encrypted in transit and at rest?

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Top Cloud Security Issues: Threats, Risks, Challenges & Solutions

eSecurity Planet

Conduct user awareness training: Incorporate a focused training program into onboarding and workflow process so employees can learn about social engineering strategies, phishing risks, and cloud security best practices. It’s a common source of data breaches, which are frequently caused by configuration problems.

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