History of World Cloud Security Day

The cloud has become a crucial backbone for most organizations. In 2020, 61% of U.S. businesses alone moved their workloads to the cloud to quickly support remote work and accessibility to corporate data. As of 2002, 60% of all corporate data was stored in the cloud. And while the cloud provides flexibility and potential boosts to productivity, it has also introduced risk which is not easily identified. As cloud operations become more prevalent, security threats have also become more prevalent. 

Threat actors continuously evolve their tactics to take advantage of remote workers who are using smartphones and tablets and the public internet to connect to the cloud. Instead of sending phishing emails to desktop computers, attackers are tailoring their social engineering campaigns using SMS text messages, social media apps, or any other apps with messaging functionalities. 

With countless cloud services, it has also become harder to keep tabs on the settings of each individual service as well as when to update. As a result, misconfigurations and vulnerabilities become more common, giving attackers another way to compromise an organization’s or an individual’s data in the cloud. 

Lookout introduces the first-ever World Cloud Security Day to raise awareness of the risks associated with remote work and BYOD policies.