India, June 23 -- As cloud adoption accelerates across industries, the focus often remains on speed, scalability, and cost efficiency-leaving security as an afterthought. This oversight can lead to misconfigurations, data breaches, and compliance violations. Cloud security requires a proactive and layered approach. Here are five of the most common mistakes organizations make when managing cloud environments-and how to avoid them.

The mistake: Granting overly permissive access to cloud resources-such as using default credentials, leaving storage buckets open, or failing to separate user roles.

How to avoid it: Implement role-based access control (RBAC), apply the principle of least privilege, and regularly audit access policies to ensure...