What are the biggest risks of moving to the cloud?
The most common cloud migration risks are security misconfigurations that expose data due to incorrect access controls, underestimating total costs, and skills gaps on the team managing the new environment. Misconfiguration is consistently cited as a leading cause of cloud data exposure incidents, more so than the platform itself being insecure.
It's a common misconception that the cloud itself is the security risk — in reality, major cloud platforms invest enormously in infrastructure security. The actual risk almost always comes from how a business configures access within that platform: a storage bucket left open, permissions set too broadly, or no one reviewing who has access months after setup.
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