Over the past several years, user misconfigurations of cloud storage infrastructure settings have led to a spate of high-profile security vulnerabilities, and a new study shows the problem persists despite heightened visibility of the problem and copious remediation guidance. Perhaps nowhere is the misconfiguration problem more apparent than in the highly publicized string of data breaches and security vulnerabilities associated with Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 storage buckets over the past several years, though other cloud providers have also been affected.

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