Web applications are increasingly under attack as valuable enterprise data moves to the cloud, according to Verizon’s annual Data Breach Investigations Report.
Web application attacks doubled from last year, to 43%. In terms of actual breaches, cloud assets were involved in about 24% of breaches, while on-premise assets were involved in 70% of breaches. Cloud breaches involved an email or web application server 73% of the time, Verizon’s analysis found, and 77% of cloud breaches also involved breached credentials.
