1 in 3 Cloud Assets Are Easily Exploitable — And It’s Time to Get Serious

A new report from CyCognito confirms what many of us in security leadership have feared but few have quantified so clearly: 1 in 3 cloud-hosted assets are sitting ducks—easily exploitable due to misconfigurations or common vulnerabilities. That’s not just a gap. That’s an open invitation.

With nearly 5 million internet-facing assets analyzed, this isn’t anecdotal. It’s systemic.

And while all the major cloud providers were impacted, the disparity is telling:

• Google Cloud: 38% of assets vulnerable

• Azure: 27%

• AWS: 15%

• Alternative/secondary cloud platforms: over 10% with serious risk

These aren’t just critical CVEs with a 9.8 severity score either. They’re low-hanging fruit vulnerabilities: trivial to exploit, easy to automate, and often invisible to traditional tools.

So what now?

We don’t need more fear. We need frictionless, actionable security.

Here’s what I believe enterprises must do and how Aviatrix can help:

1. Get Full Visibility — Not Just of Assets, But of Risky Behavior

You can’t protect what you can’t see. That includes east-west traffic, ephemeral services, and multicloud sprawl.

Aviatrix provides deep, native visibility into cloud traffic flows, including encrypted routes, misconfigured security groups, and unauthorized egress. Our platform turns the abstract into actionable—fast.

2. Prioritize Exploitability, Not Just Severity Scores

Traditional vulnerability scans focus on what could go wrong. But attackers are looking for what’s easy to break.

Aviatrix enforces security policies based on context and behavior, not just static risk scores. That means lateral movement is stopped before it starts. Workloads can’t talk to each other unless explicitly allowed—making accidental exposure far less dangerous.

3. Implement Security Controls That Don’t Slow the Business

The business moved to the cloud for speed. Security shouldn’t be the reason it stalls.

Aviatrix delivers a distributed security architecture that scales with your business without adding complexity. It enables zero-trust segmentation, egress filtering, and encryption without forcing the dev team to rewrite how they deploy.

4. Make Multicloud Safer, Not Harder

Every cloud platform brings its own risks, tools, and blind spots.

Aviatrix unifies your security posture across clouds—AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, and beyond. One control plane. One policy model. One source of truth for network and security visibility.

The Bottom Line:

If one in three of your cloud assets can be exploited easily, it’s no longer a theoretical problem—it’s a breach waiting for an audience.

Aviatrix was built for this moment: to make cloud security dynamic, distributed, and frictionless.

You can’t afford to wait for the next CVE to be your wake-up call. Let’s raise the standard and secure the business at the speed of cloud.

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