Your Cloud Security Checklist Doesn't Work the Way You Think It Does
The Hacker News, Monday, September 7th, 2026
Analysis of 3,000 organizations found AWS, Azure and Google Cloud risk profiles have almost nothing in common.
Intruder's 2026 Cloud Security Index analyzed 3,000 organizations across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud and found their risk profiles have almost nothing in common.
The practical consequence is that a unified cloud security checklist, applied identically across providers, will over-invest in controls that matter on one platform and miss the dominant risks on another.
The report breaks down which exposure categories dominate on each provider. For teams running genuinely multi-cloud estates, it makes a case for provider-specific baselines rather than a single abstracted policy.