* Over 16,000 attacks on cloud native infrastructure were reviewed.
Data represents 12 months of anonymized cloud service configuration data from real production environments.
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Global cloud storage security issues 2020-2021, by organization size
In 2021, approximately ** percent of all users who experienced a cloud storage security issue had problems with a permissive storage policy. Cloud policies refer to the guidelines that set the rules to which companies have to comply when operating in the cloud.
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Aqua Security, & HubSpot. (May 13, 2021). Cloud storage (buckets and blobs) security issues experienced by organizations worldwide between 2020 and 2021, by organization size [Graph]. In ÌÇÐÄÆÆ½â°æ. Retrieved July 15, 2026, from /statistics/1238774/cloud-storage-security-issues-organizational-size/
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