TotalCloud Insights: A Wake-Up Call on Cloud Database Security Failure Rates

Qualys reports comparative failure rates of cloud database security controls across AWS (56.79%), Azure (62.08%), and GCP (95.79%), concluding the gaps reflect user configuration and security management practices rather than platform limitations; it also details Azure-layer failures—network (75.13%), access management (59.69%), threat detection (67.05%), and information security (47.81%)—and introduces Qualys TotalCloud as a tool to identify misconfigurations, support encryption and access controls, and improve overall cloud database security posture.