A retrospective on public cloud breaches of 2022, with Rami McCarthy and Houston Hopkins

Introduction

In this post, we look back on the cloud data breaches that were publicly disclosed in 2022, specifically focusing on breaches of companies using large cloud providers like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.

Before diving in, we want to emphasize that this is a blameless postmortem article. Securing cloud environments is a challenging task for everyone, and organizations who publicly report their incidents should not be further criticized for choosing to be transparent.

We’ll start by looking at large …

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