5 Major Cloud Security Breaches and How to Boost Your Defenses Against Them

Cloud security breaches are an increasingly common part of the technology news. The truly scary part is that most go unreported, either because the company remains unaware of the breach or pays to keep it out of the news.

CIOs are facing an uphill battle to defend their business against a range of cloud security threats. Pretty much every type of institution and cloud service has been breached around the world, from the US government and many colleges to IT service providers, security firms and many businesses that lose valuable customer data. Most data breaches are caused by incorrectly configured clouds, or complexity that the business doesn’t understand as it builds its operations on private, hybrid or public clouds.