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Organizations Face Rising Virtual Machine Sprawl Risks
8.2
Relevance Score
As cloud adoption has grown over two decades, organizations increasingly struggle with uncontrolled virtual machine (VM) sprawl that leaves instances unmonitored, unpatched, and over-permissioned. Reports from the Cloud Security Alliance, Microsoft’s 2024 State of Multicloud Security, and IBM note only about 23% of organizations have comprehensive cloud visibility and warn orphaned VMs enable identity-based lateral movement, data exfiltration, and regulatory fines.
Scoring Rationale
Strong evidence and actionable guidance plus industry-wide scope, limited novelty and mostly consolidates existing reports.
Sources
- Read OriginalVirtual machines, virtually everywhere – but not all protectedwelivesecurity.com
