2021 Cloud Misconfigurations Report

Rapid7 analyzed 121 publicly reported cloud data breaches from 2020 to learn about the commonalities and patterns tied to exposure incidents. The goal: to help organizations understand where cloud security currently stands and what they can do to stay vigilant on their cloud journeys. Here’s what we found.

• No industry or information type is safe
  Discover the frequency of attacks across industries and types of data exposed.

• More incidents are being discovered by researchers instead of attackers
  Find out what this means for disclosure and remediation.

• The frequency and scale of data breaches keeps growing
  Explore the causes of this trend, and whether it can be reversed.

• The main cause of cloud breaches is misconfigurations
  Read about why misconfigurations happen—and how to avoid them.