The Cloud Compliance Pulse 2025 report by Unosecur provides a data-driven, half-yearly benchmark of cloud security controls across 50 organizations, revealing widespread failures in basic identity hygiene such as missing MFA and over-privileged roles. Key findings emphasize urgent remediation in AWS, Azure, and GCP environments to reduce high-severity gaps and meet compliance standards like ISO 27002 and PCI DSS. #CloudCompliancePulse2025 #IdentitySecurity #Unosecur
Keypoints
- Annual cybersecurity reports typically include an executive summary, data-driven benchmarks, cloud provider deep dives, regulatory analysis, and case studies to present a holistic view of security posture and trends.
- These reports often begin with methodology outlines and sample demographics to establish credibility and representativeness.
- Key statistics in this report show an average of 40 cloud control failures per tenant, with 98% of firms exhibiting at least one high-severity security gap.
- The ten most commonly violated controls highlight critical weaknesses, such as admin accounts without MFA (68%) and project-wide TokenCreator permissions in GCP (52%).
- Detailed findings reveal AWS customers more frequently experience higher control failures due to larger workload volumes, not inherent platform insecurity.
- Significant trends include recurring issues around missing MFA, over-privileged roles, stale or duplicate credentials, and unmanaged service-account keys accounting for 70% of high-severity findings.
- Regulatory sections discuss evolving global legal provisions affecting cloud security, identity and access management (IAM), and emerging AI governance impacting identity frameworks.
- Insights emphasize that fundamental identity hygiene controls—such as enabling MFA, just-in-time admin elevation, key rotation, and vaulting secrets—are effective, measurable steps to reduce audit findings and breach risks.
- Vendor-specific vulnerability disclosures include critical CVEs affecting AWS (e.g., CVE-2025-2598), Azure (e.g., CVE-2025-29813), and Google Cloud (e.g., CVE-2025-4600), reflecting active threat landscapes in early 2025.
- Recurrent themes show organizations often overlook basic security controls, which become primary targets for ransomware and other attackers, underscoring the importance of continuous compliance and proactive remediation.
Source: Awesome Annual Security Reports - The reports in this collection are limited to content which does not require a paid subscription, membership, or service contract. (https://github.com/jacobdjwilson/awesome-annual-security-reports/)