Securing Cloud Storage

Summary

Ensuring storage buckets and databases aren't accidentally publicly exposed — a misconfigured public storage bucket remains one of the most common, damaging, and entirely preventable cloud breach causes.

• 1Audit a sample storage bucket configuration for accidental public access.
• 2Learn why 'block all public access' should be the default, opted out of deliberately.
• 3Enable encryption at rest on a storage resource and verify it in the console.