Cloud Security · 5 min
Cloud Misconfigurations
Exposure, risk, and what the evidence actually shows
This lesson explains the concept, then checks your understanding in a short interactive exercise.
Recurring misconfiguration patterns
The same handful of mistakes drive a large share of cloud incidents.
- Storage or databases reachable by anyone
- Overly broad permissions and wildcard policies
- Insecure defaults left unchanged after setup
- Configuration drift between what's declared and what's running
- Secrets in code, images, environment files or tickets
- Management interfaces exposed to the internet
Three different questions
Incident handling in cloud goes wrong when these get merged into one.
- Exposure — could someone reach it?
- Risk — what would it mean if they did?
- Evidence — did anyone actually access it?
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