TotalCloud Insights: Securing Your Data—The Power of Encryption in Preventing Threats

This report highlights widespread encryption control misconfigurations across major cloud providers—citing high failure rates in AWS (e.g., Lambda 71%), Azure (e.g., Disk/MySQL 90–93%), and GCP (e.g., BigQuery/Compute/Storage 98–99%)—and explains how weak encryption leads to real-world exposures, then clarifies encryption fundamentals (in transit/at rest; symmetric/asymmetric) and prescribes CSP-specific best practices. It concludes by showing how Qualys TotalCloud can detect and remediate these issues to strengthen cloud security posture and compliance.