Palo Alto ( California, US), December 12 21018: Unit 42 (the Palo Alto Networks threat intelligence team)  has released a new cloud security report. “Cloud Security Trends and Tips: Key Learning to Secure Your AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Environments.” looks at new and existing threats to cloud security.
 Unit 42 examined threats in cloud security from late-May through early-September 2018 and analyzed how enterprises are managing those threats as they attempt to balance risk with efficiency. With more and more companies migrating to the public cloud, or hybrid versions, there are concerns about the security of the cloud.
Key findings include:

• Account compromises are increasing in scale and velocity: 29% of organizations have potential account compromises, 27% allow root user activities and 41% of access keys have not been rotated in the last 90 days.
• Compliance is a work in progress: 32% of organizations publicly exposed at least one cloud storage service, 49% of databases are not encrypted and 32% of GDPR compliance checks fail. 
• Cryptojacking may be cooling: 11% of organizations experienced cryptojacking activity in their environments—a serious problem, but better than the 25% reported in May.
• The diminishing value of cryptocurrencies, along with better detection capabilities, is helping decrease attacks.