It’s 2025, and the industry has built some of the most advanced cloud environments ever seen—automated deployments, real-time threat detection and infrastructure that scales with just a few lines of code.
Yet, data breaches aren’t slowing down—why? Because a single misconfiguration—often as simple as an overly permissive IAM role or an exposed storage bucket—can wreck everything. In fact, cloud misconfigurations are often termed as a “technical oversight.” But they’re a systemic failure—a gap between how we build, secure and perceive risk in the cloud.
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Source: Forbes News
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