Global lockdowns and the sudden switch to remote work on every continent presented a new world of opportunities for hackers to exploit . Today , cloud services are one of the most common routes for successful cybersecurity attacks .

And the number of attacks is increasing , with no reason in sight for this trend to change , says Frank Ford , Partner and Head of the Global Cybersecurity Practice at Bain & Company .

“ We can expect to see many more cyber breaches with ‘ cloud ’ as the attack route ,” says

Ford . “ But the cloud itself is not the problem – rather it is how people use it . Cloud can be made adequately secure ; just consider the number of online banking solutions in use , many of which are cloud-based .

“ In simple terms , cloud providers like AWS and Azure provide robust security ‘ of the cloud ’, meaning the networks , computing environments , etc ; whereas companies are responsible for their security ‘ in the cloud ’, meaning configuring their security solutions to properly protect what they put into the cloud , their applications and data .”

It is in this second part where things all too often go wrong , according to Ford , as many companies struggle to master the discipline

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