What Analyzing Hundreds of Thousands of Cloud Environments Taught Us About Data Exposure

Wiz Research’s Cloud Data Security Snapshot highlights pervasive cloud exposure risks across hundreds of thousands of accounts, finding that 54% of environments host publicly exposed VMs/serverless with sensitive data, 35% combine sensitive-data exposure with high/critical vulnerabilities, 72% have publicly accessible PaaS databases lacking access controls, and 12% run publicly exposed, exploitable containers; the report urges prioritizing context—what’s exposed, what’s vulnerable, and what’s sensitive—to reduce breach risk.