The Epoch Times By
With businesses around the globe—especially in the United States, Canada, and Western Europe—bracing for potential cyber-attacks orchestrated by Russia or its hackers, a leading cyber security firm is warning most software upgrades are not adequately addressing the most vulnerable component of the “modern cyber-attack surface.”
Most business security policies and resilience upgrades are focused on physical infrastructure, such as PCs, smartphones, routers, and IoT (Internet of Things) devices, but the vast majority of organizations’ assets and security susceptibilities are now in the cloud, according to a recently published study by JupiterOne.
The study, the 2022 State of Cyber Assets Report, analyzed 372 million data points at nearly 1,300 organizations to assess the security of their cloud workloads, networks, apps, data, and connected devices now part of their “cyber asset universe.”
“Enterprises that are adopting the cloud in a rapid fashion are seeing the most explosive level of growth in their cyber asset quantity and, thus, their attack surface,” JupiterOne chief marketing officer Tyler Shields told The Epoch Times on March 23.
