In 2024, the frequency of severe cloud security incidents impacting Palo Alto Networks customers surged significantly, showing a more than threefold increase.
Palo Alto’s analysis revealed a 388% spike in cloud security alerts affecting businesses from the beginning to the end of the year. The majority of this surge was driven by high-severity incidents, which saw a staggering 235% rise, overshadowing the increases in low-severity (10% rise) and medium-severity (21% rise) threats.
This trend indicates that cybercriminals are not only targeting the cloud more frequently but also executing attacks with greater efficacy.
The Most Common Cloud Issues Today
Palo Alto observed that organizations received an average of over 20 serious alerts daily related to three main types of suspicious activities:
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Frequent use of serverless token for remote command line operations (average of 24.68 occurrences daily)
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Disabling cloud storage delete protection (average of 20.19 occurrences daily)
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