43 percent of cloud identities are abandoned and unused

A new analysis of platforms including AWS, Google and Salesforce, involving 200,000 identities and hundreds of millions of cloud assets reveals that 43 percent of all cloud identities sit abandoned and unused. The report from Varonis points out that this also means they are exposed and vulnerable, making an organization a target for account takeovers. Three out of four cloud identities belonging to external contractors, for example, remain active after they leave the organization, which means they can continue to access -- and potentially steal -- IP and data. In addition one in four cloud identities are non-human. These include… [Continue Reading]