Why the Facebook outage and Twitch breach matter to business leaders

This report argues that the primary cloud security risk is configuration mistakes, using Facebook's outage and Twitch's breach as examples of how a single misconfiguration can cause widespread downtime or public data exposure; it warns that attacker automation makes these errors easy to find and recommends five mitigations—know your cloud state, think preventively, apply Policy as Code, align stakeholders, and shift to a security-everywhere culture—to prevent misconfiguration-driven incidents.