Cloud assets have 115 vulnerabilities on average — some several years old

The state of cloud security has reached a critical tipping point, as attackers increasingly turn attention to cloud environments that enterprises aren’t doing enough to secure.

Companies are having a hard time keeping their cloud infrastructure secure and the race to adopt and integrate AI services into their apps and workflows is making things worse.

Having analyzed billions of production assets on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud and Alibaba Cloud this year, researchers from Orca Security warn that cloud assets have on average 115 vulnerabilities and over half of organizations have at least one such vulnerability that’s over 20 years old. This is an alarming trend considering that attackers, including state-backed cyberespionage groups, have increasingly targeted cloud infrastructure in recent years.

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