Think Your Cloud Is Secure? Three Common Misconfigurations You're Probably Overlooking
SC Media, Tuesday, May 13th, 2025
Cloud environments often appear secure on the surface, but the underlying architecture can hide overlooked risks. Three recurring missteps-often in routing and access control-continue to impact performance and security posture in hybrid environments.
1. Over-reliance on public internet routing
Organizations often assume that cloud traffic-once encrypted-is inherently safe to send across public internet routes. But this assumption ignores performance variability and the increased surface area for potential interception or service disruption.
Routing traffic over private backbones or through controlled, optimized paths can reduce exposure to these risks and improve application responsiveness-especially for latency-sensitive services like video conferencing or real-time collaboration.