The NSW Department of Communities and Justice is underway with a major Legacy Data Migration Program which is retiring numerous historical platforms after extracting and transitioning critical legacy data to a modern, cloud-based analytics & reporting solution.

As we approach the middle of 2023, we thought it an appropriate time to reflect on the cloud security risks and threats that we have seen so far this year, as observed by the Orca Cloud Security Platform that continuously scans billions of cloud assets on major cloud service provider platforms. After careful analysis of aggregated scan results from January-May this year, the Orca Research Pod has identified the top five most common, yet severe, cloud security risks that are ubiquitous in many cloud environments.