The 7 deadly cloud security sins – and how SMBs can do things better

This article advises SMBs on strengthening cloud security by avoiding seven common pitfalls—omitting MFA, over-trusting cloud providers under the shared responsibility model, neglecting backups and patching, misconfiguring services, failing to monitor cloud traffic, and not encrypting sensitive data—and recommends controls such as passwordless/MFA, third-party protections, XDR/MDR, continuous risk-based patching and asset management, encryption at rest/in transit with data discovery/classification, least-privilege access with IP allow-listing, and a Zero Trust approach.