Your Cloud Security Checklist Doesn't Work the Way You Think It Does
Intruder's 2026 Cloud Security Index found misconfiguration risk profiles differ sharply across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud across 3,000 organizations.
Intruder analyzed misconfiguration data from 3,000 organizations across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud for its 2026 Cloud Security Index. Weak IAM controls and missing logging affected 80-98% of accounts regardless of provider, while exposed services ranged from 76% on AWS to just 8% on Google Cloud. Top issues included S3 buckets without HTTPS enforcement (87% of AWS accounts), Entra ID users without MFA (55% of Azure accounts), and missing OS Login MFA (77% of Google Cloud accounts). Weak IAM prevalence rose with organization size, from 87% at SMEs to 98% at large enterprises, and midmarket organizations took the longest to remediate at 35 days on average.
- Weak IAM and missing logging affect 80-98% of accounts across all three cloud providers
- Exposed services affect 76% of AWS accounts versus just 8% on Google Cloud
- 87% of AWS accounts leave S3 without HTTPS enforcement; 83% have overly permissive network ACLs
- 55% of Azure accounts have Entra users without MFA; 67% lack storage key rotation
- Weak IAM prevalence climbs with organization size, reaching 98% at large enterprises
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If managing security across multiple cloud providers wasn't hard enough, each one fails in a different way. For the 2026 Cloud Security Index, Intruder analyzed misconfiguration data from 3,000 organizations across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud and found that risk profiles across providers have almost nothing in common. Here’s what the data looks like.
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