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90 percent of data breaches are caused by human error.
A new report from Kaspersky Lab has revealed that security incidents in public cloud infrastructure are more likely to occur as a result of a customer’s employees rather than by actions carried out by cloud providers.
The cybersecurity firm’s Understanding security of the cloud: from adoption benefits to threats and concerns report shed light on the fact that 90 percent of corporate data breaches in the cloud happen due to social engineering attacks which target customers’ employees and not because of problems caused by their cloud providers.
While cloud adoption allows businesses to benefit from more agile business processes, reduced CAPEX and faster IT provision, organizations still worry about cloud infrastructure continuity and the security of their data.
According to Kaspersky’s research, over a third of both SMB and enterprise companies are concerned about incidents affecting IT infrastructure hosted by a third party which could make the benefits of cloud redundant and carry commercial and reputational risks.