This white paper explains that cloud adoption brings major benefits, but also expands the attack surface and makes organizations susceptible to threats like phishing, stolen credentials, ransomware, account hijacking, and service disruption. It highlights six common cloud security challenges: weak security architecture, misconfigurations, data breaches, inadequate access control, insecure APIs, and limited visibility. It recommends eight practical controls, including stronger encryption, an incident response plan, least-privilege access with zero-trust practices, disciplined data management, periodic risk assessments, ongoing security awareness training, continuous workload and usage monitoring, and strong API hygiene. It also argues that a structured security framework improves maturity,

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