From the course: Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK) Cert Prep

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Cloud risk-management overview

Cloud risk-management overview

- [Instructor] You will have five questions on the exam related to the risk audit and compliance domain. Generally, risks encompass threats, vulnerabilities, controls, assets, impact, and countermeasures, as well as likelihood. Risks are partly related to the vulnerabilities linked to the negligent or diligent care of assets. Implementing controls can reduce the likelihood and impact of threats on vulnerabilities. In 2022, the Cloud Security Alliance's Top Threats Research Report identify these as the leading cause of cloud risk, insufficient identity, credentials, access and key management, insecure interfaces and APIs, misconfiguration and inadequate change control, lack of cloud security architecture and strategy, insecure software development, unsecured third party resources, system vulnerabilities, accidental cloud data disclosure, misconfiguration and exploitation of serverless and container workloads, organized crime, hackers, advanced persistent threats, followed by cloud…

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