By Fabio Fratucello, International CTO, CrowdStrike
Cloud adoption continues to accelerate across industries, but so do the security risks associated with rapid digital transformation. According to recent findings highlighted in CrowdStrike’s 2025 Global Threat Report, cloud intrusions surged by 26% in 2024.
“As organisations continue to accelerate their move to the cloud, they’re embracing its scale and speed to drive business transformation. However, with this rapid adoption comes expanded attack surfaces. Adversaries are exploiting stolen identity credentials to gain access to cloud environments—often undetected. According to CrowdStrike’s 2025 Global Threat Report, cloud intrusions jumped 26% last year. Valid account abuse was the leading method of initial access, accounting for 35% of all cloud incidents in the first half of 2024,” explains Fabio Fratucello, International CTO, CrowdStrike.
Fabio emphasizes that fragmented security approaches are increasingly ineffective against today’s sophisticated threats. “Traditional approaches to cloud security, where organisations rely on fragmented point cloud security tools, are simply not enough. Organisations should use World Cloud Security Day as a catalyst to assess the security of their cloud environments.”
With cloud environments becoming more complex, security strategies must evolve accordingly. “To stop cloud breaches, security teams need a unified approach – one that protects cloud infrastructure, workloads, applications, identities, data, SaaS and AI models from a single platform. This closes protection gaps and reduces both complexity and cost,” Fabio advises.
Fabio also highlights the importance of moving beyond passive security postures. “Additionally, security teams need to assess their current runtime protection and cloud detection and response (CDR) capabilities. As cloud security technologies—and threats—continue to evolve, visibility alone into cloud security posture is not enough. Organisations must focus on stopping the breach.”
On the occasion of World Cloud Security Day, security leaders are encouraged to reassess their cloud protection strategies and consider implementing more integrated solutions that address the full spectrum of cloud-related threats.
