AWS showed the lowest rate for assets with both critical and easily exploitable issues at 0.02%.

15% of assets hosted by AWS were vulnerable to at least one security issue or misconfiguration.

Assets hosted by Azure showed 0.07% with critical vulnerabilities.

Nine out of ten (91%) Security and IT leaders concede to making compromises in securing and managing their hybrid cloud infrastructure.

Alternative cloud and hosting providers showed rates ten times higher than AWS for assets with both critical and easily exploitable issues

Assets hosted by AWS and Google Cloud showed 0.04% with critical vulnerabilities.

46% say that a key challenge in securing and managing hybrid cloud infrastructure is lack of clean, high-quality data to support secure AI workload deployment (46%).

27% of assets hosted by Azure were vulnerable to at least one security issue or misconfiguration.

70% of Security and IT leaders now view the public cloud as a greater risk than any other environment.

Assets with both critical and easily exploitable issues were found across all cloud providers.

83% confirm that deep observability is now being discussed at the board level to better protect hybrid cloud environments.

47% say that a challenge in securing and managing hybrid cloud is the lack of comprehensive insight and visibility across their environments, including lateral movement in East-West traffic.

Assets hosted by cloud providers other than AWS, Google, and Azure showed approximately 10 times higher rates of critical vulnerabilities compared to AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure.

Nearly nine in 10 (89%) Security and IT leaders cite deep observability as fundamental to securing and managing hybrid cloud infrastructure.

38% of assets hosted by Google Cloud were vulnerable to at least one security issue or misconfiguration. This rate for Google Cloud was over 2.5x more than assets hosted by AWS.

Critical vulnerabilities (CVSS 9.0 or higher) were detected on assets hosted by all cloud providers, though uncommon.

10% of assets on hosting providers other than AWS, Google, and Azure had easily exploitable vulnerabilities. This compares to 5 percent hosted on Google Cloud with easily exploitable vulnerabilities and just 2 percent on AWS and Azure with easily exploitable vulnerabilities.

In cloud environments, in 70% of observed incidents, attackers gained access through logins from unfamiliar geographies.

Enterprises use a staggering 320 AI cloud applications on average.

44% of threat detections originate from the cloud.