* 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 data encryption security issues experienced by organizations 2020-2021
In 2021, approximately ** percent of respondents who experienced data encryption issues reported that unencrypted cloud services are a problem. Data encryption is a security method whereby information is encoded and can not be decrypted or accessed unless the user has the correct encryption key.
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