The author of this Pathfinder report is Mike Fratto, a Senior Research Analyst on the Applied Infrastructure & DevOps team at 451 Research, a part of S&P Global Market Intelligence. Pathfinder reports navigate decision-makers through the issues surrounding a specific technology or business case, explore the business value of adoption, and recommend the range of considerations and concrete next steps in the decision-making process.

This report explores the following topics:

• the growth of already commonplace cloud usage for mission-critical applications
• the importance of cloud governance
• the top cloud security concerns for enterprises
• the adoption of third-party tools for cloud management
• the steps IT teams should take to make their cloud environments more secure and reliable

This year’s Weak Password Report highlights why passwords are still the weakest link in an organization’s network, and how stronger password policy enforcement can be your best defense.

The 2023 password report unveils keys themes in password creation that include:

• ‘Soccer’ tops the related terms list with over 140,000 inclusions
• Top 10 base words from the Nvidia breach
• 88% of passwords used in attacks were 12 characters or less
• The most common base term found in passwords used to attack networks across multiple ports is still password

Download the report to uncover information from an analysis of 800 million breached passwords and passwords found in live attacks on our team’s honeypot network.