Cloud adoption is growing, but manual infrastructure provisioning hasn’t kept up — and it’s creating serious risk. Gartner found that through 2025, 99% of cloud security failures were customer-caused, largely from misconfigurations. Teams relying on console clicks or one-off scripts face inconsistent environments where security rules are too permissive, encryption is overlooked, and storage is misconfigured. The 2024 Cloud Security Alliance report confirmed that misconfigurations caused over 65% of cloud security incidents — most were simply unnoticed open doors.
