Human error, issues with ... a CSA chart showed security misconfigurations as the No. 2 contributor to outages, below cloud provider issues. ... Cloud computing has transcended its novelty status, ...

A "human error" took down the servers of one of Europe's biggest cloud computing groups on Wednesday, causing thousands of websites to crash for more than hour, the company said.

Just a few years ago, the two biggest hurdles to cloud computing adoption were cloud security and reliability — cloud outages. Over time, we’ve learned the cloud can be as secure (if not more so) than ...

Simple human error, misconfiguration or other mistakes can accidentally lead to breaches – and respondents identified this as the leading cause of cloud data breaches.

The verdict is in. Most cloud computing failures can be traced back to very human mistakes. What (expensive) lessons have we learned? I’m often taken aback by how the press frames cloud ...

But it's also a problem in the cloud, where human errors that have plagued IT for decades are still causing breaches that show little sign of slowing down. "Human action can compromise security," the ...

An Amazon Web Services employee working on the issue accidentally switched off more computer servers than intended at 9:37 a.m. Seattle time, resulting in errors that cascaded through the company ...