7 Common Security Pitfalls to Avoid When Migrating to the Cloud

This article enumerates seven common security pitfalls organizations face when migrating to the cloud — including publicly exposed S3 buckets, leaked credentials in source control, lack of enforced policies, insufficient vendor vetting, uncontrolled account creation, VPC/ACL misconfigurations, and missing encryption — and offers practical mitigations such as CI/CD-managed configurations, IAM best practices, secrets management, account governance, network restrictions, KMS/TLS usage, and crowdsourced testing (bug bounties/VDPs).