🔒 Cloud security mistake everyone makes (and pays for later)

Most teams think "we have IAM roles set up" = we're secure.

Here's what actually gets companies breached in the cloud:

1. Overpermissioned roles sitting idle That Lambda function with s3:*? It only needs s3:GetObject on one bucket. The blast radius of a compromise just became your entire data lake.

2. Public S3 buckets from 2019 that nobody remembers Audit your buckets.

3. Hardcoded credentials in CI/CD pipelines Still shockingly common. Rotate everything. Use OIDC federation instead.

4. No logging on the control plane If CloudTrail isn't enabled and alerting, you're flying blind. Attackers love blind spots.

5. Trusting "internal" traffic Zero trust isn't a cool new thing. East-west movement inside a VPC has taken down companies bigger than yours.

The truth: Most cloud breaches aren't sophisticated. They're opportunistic. Misconfigured resource + exposed credential + no alerting = headline.