cloud risks

As organizations migrate their workloads to the cloud in droves, Microsoft 365 has emerged as the productivity backbone for businesses of all sizes. The convenience, flexibility, and integration offered by Exchange Online, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams are undeniable. Yet, as reliance on the...

The discovery of a major Domain Name System (DNS) resolution flaw in Microsoft Azure’s OpenAI service, as documented by Unit 42 researchers in late 2024, cast light on a pivotal but often overlooked aspect of cloud security: the profound risk introduced by misconfigurations—even in managed...

Amazon Web Services, the global leader in cloud computing, has taken a significant step toward greater transparency and customer empowerment with the launch of its centralized Product Lifecycle page. This new resource, which aggregates crucial information about service trajectories—including...

The launch of Microsoft's Malaysia West Cloud Region marks a monumental shift in Southeast Asia's digital landscape, solidifying both Microsoft's presence in the region and Malaysia's ambition to become a premier AI and digital hub. This development, celebrated with fanfare and strategic...

The sudden exposure of key Commvault infrastructure has ignited urgent concern among SaaS providers and cybersecurity professionals alike, highlighting an increasingly complex threat landscape for cloud-based data protection platforms. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency...

In today's digital landscape, the convenience of cloud storage is undeniable. Services like Google Drive, Dropbox, and OneDrive offer seamless access to our files from any device, anywhere. However, this convenience comes with significant security considerations. Recent high-profile data...

The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has recently issued a high-risk security advisory concerning multiple vulnerabilities in Microsoft products. These vulnerabilities, if exploited, could allow attackers to gain elevated privileges, access confidential data, bypass security...

The surge in artificial intelligence workloads is exposing serious fissures in hybrid cloud security, reshaping the challenges facing enterprises worldwide. As business leaders accelerate the adoption of generative AI and machine learning, a new storm of cybersecurity hurdles is gathering...

A recent surge in cyber campaigns is drawing heightened attention to the security of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications, with Commvault—one of the leading enterprise data protection providers—at the center of a nation-state level breach. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security...

Microsoft Azure is universally recognized as a linchpin of cloud computing, underpinning a vast spectrum of digital transformation initiatives across the globe. As part of Microsoft’s ecosystem—representing nearly half of the corporation’s net sales through its suite of operating systems and...

As new revelations surface about cloud security, the ubiquitous presence of SaaS solutions in enterprise environments is coming under renewed scrutiny. The recent warning issued by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) about potential broader attacks exploiting...

Azure Managed Identities (MIs) have revolutionized the way applications authenticate to Azure services by eliminating the need for developers to manage credentials directly. This innovation enhances security by reducing the risk of credential leakage. However, recent research has illuminated...

Cloud adoption, once seen primarily as an IT modernization step, is now recognized as a make-or-break business transformation lever—one that will define industry winners and losers over the next half-decade. As Gartner’s latest research underscores, the next evolutionary phase of the cloud...

The disclosure of several critical vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s cloud ecosystem, including one rated as a perfect 10.0 on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS), marks a pivotal moment in both the enterprise security landscape and public trust in hyperscale providers. Microsoft’s...

In the evolving landscape of cloud security threats, vulnerabilities that affect essential storage services warrant swift attention from enterprises and IT professionals. One of the latest and most pressing of these issues is CVE-2025-29972, a Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability...

Microsoft Teams Faces Major File Sharing Outage: What Went Wrong and How Users Are Coping In the fast-paced world of digital collaboration, Microsoft Teams has become a linchpin for businesses, educational institutions, and organizations worldwide. However, an unexpected outage has recently put...

A wave of frustration swept across businesses and IT administrators on May 6th, as a significant Microsoft 365 outage disrupted critical cloud services across North America. The incident, which began in the early morning hours, impacted a suite of foundational tools relied upon by organizations...

Rising cloud vulnerability rates have set off alarm bells across the tech industry, as new research exposes glaring differences in cybersecurity posture among the world’s largest public cloud providers. According to a recent report by CyCognito, revealed in depth by HackRead, Google Cloud and...

Cloud security has rapidly ascended to the top of every IT agenda, propelled by accelerating digital transformation, complex multi-cloud strategies, and a wave of high-profile cyber incidents. Recent findings from CyCognito, a security firm recognized for its attack surface management platform...

For decades, Europe’s ambitions of possessing truly “sovereign cloud” solutions—platforms supposedly placed beyond the reach of foreign powers—have collided with a technological and economic reality: America’s hyperscaler giants, especially Microsoft, Google, and Amazon Web Services, have become...