Azure had the greatest incidence of critical vulnerabilities among all major cloud providers, Google Cloud had the highest rate of easily exploitable assets.
Google Cloud had the highest cloud vulnerability prevalence among major cloud service providers, according to research from Cycognito.
It found that 38 percent of Google Cloud-hosted assets had at least one security flaw, compared with 27 percent and 15 percent of Azure- and Amazon Web Services-hosted assets, according to Hackread.
Other cloud providers, such as Oracle Cloud, Digital Ocean, and Linode, had the same vulnerability incidence as Google Cloud, while leading hosting firms GoDaddy, DreamHost, and Hetzner had a 33 percent vulnerability rate.
While Azure had the greatest incidence of critical vulnerabilities among all major cloud providers, Google Cloud had the highest rate of easily exploitable assets, compared with Azure and AWS. However, such flaws were even more common among minor cloud firms and hosting providers.
Organisations' security teams have been urged to implement not only inventory tools but also discovery mechanisms that do not require internal documentation, as well as adopt dynamic security testing during app development and after their deployment.
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Dan Raywood is a B2B journalist with 25 years of experience, including covering cybersecurity for the past 17 years. He has extensively covered topics from Advanced Persistent Threats and nation-state hackers to major data breaches and regulatory changes.
He has spoken at events including 44CON, Infosecurity Europe, RANT Forum, BSides Scotland, Steelcon and the National Cyber Security Show, and served as editor of SC Media UK, Infosecurity Magazine and IT Security Guru. He was also an analyst with 451 Research and a product marketing lead at Tenable.
