Orgs failing to secure data in the cloud, says report

Federal Times: Millions of records containing personally identifiable and health information remain at risk because of poor encryption and network access control practices in public cloud computing environments, according to an analysis of 1 million cloud resources and 12 petabytes of network traffic by cloud infrastructure security company RedLock.

The report, “Cloud Infrastructure Security Trends,” was compiled by the RedLock Cloud Security Intelligence team of security analysts, data scientists and data engineers from organizations including Microsoft, Credit Suisse and Honeywell. Along with identifying issues, they made recommendations to mitigate compromise.

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