High-Severity Cloud Security Alerts Tripled In 2024
DARKReading, Thursday, March 27th, 2025
Attackers aren't just spending more time targeting the cloud - they're ruthlessly stealing more sensitive data and accessing more critical systems than ever before.
The rate of severe cloud security incidents affecting customers of Palo Alto Networks rose more than threefold over the course of 2024.
By comparing the beginning and end of 2024, Palo Alto tracked a 388% increase in cloud security alerts affecting organizations. The overwhelming majority of that rise can be attributed to neither threats of a low severity (up 10% through the year) nor even medium-severity (up 21%), but high-severity incidents, which rose by a full 235%.