{"id":59631,"date":"2025-10-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"urn:uuid:762307ae-5385-4086-4c5a-33680f14fe6f"},"modified":"2025-10-31T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T00:00:00","slug":"how-are-you-managing-cloud-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/how-are-you-managing-cloud-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"How are you managing cloud risk?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Most experts agree that a proactive, prioritized approach is the best way to manage cloud risk. So, what are the capabilities needed to put that in place and why is a cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) key to delivering them?<\/p>\n

From potential cyberattacks to compliance lapses and plain old human error, enterprises face no end of threats when it comes to the cloud. Hybrid and multi-cloud environments are especially hard to defend given the limited control and visibility most security teams have over and across them. But there are ways for organizations to manage cloud risk, hinging on the key capabilities of unified visibility, active risk management, and efficient security operations. This blog explores all three, and how a full-featured cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) can deliver them.<\/p>\n

In its Top Threats to Cloud Computing – Deep Dive 2025<\/a>, the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) plucks key insights from recent real-world cybersecurity incidents to propose a list of \u2018must-haves\u2019 for cloud security today.<\/p>\n

Among its conclusions, the CSA says continuous auditing and security automation, anomaly detection, centralized logging, and proactive cloud governance are crucial. It also warns that, \u201cTraditional incident response plans fail to account for cloud complexity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those findings and the rest of the report underscore the importance of taking a proactive, risk-based approach to cloud security. The question for many organizations is \u201chow?\u201d What\u2019s needed to get out of reactive mode and adopt a genuinely proactive stance? Securing cloud environments today is like trying to fix a plane while it\u2019s flying. You need visibility, automation, and coordination – all without slowing down innovation.<\/p>\n

Know your cloud risks<\/span><\/p>\n

The amount of sensitive data stored in and circulating throughout cloud environments keeps growing. Cybercriminals are aware of this and eager to exploit any cloud vulnerabilities they find, not only for ransomware but to encrypt and steal data, with consequences ranging from operational disruptions to financial losses and reputational damage.<\/p>\n

 But cyberattacks aren\u2019t the only concern. Maintaining regulatory compliance in hybrid and multi-cloud environments can be equally sweat-inducing. It\u2019s often difficult to know exactly where data resides or how it might be exposed, especially when workloads spin up and down in seconds and assets may exist only briefly before disappearing.<\/p>\n

The factors that contribute to these and other cloud risks seem to be multiplying every day. Some of the vital ones include:<\/p>\n