--- title: "How to prevent cloud storage data leakage" page_name: "How to prevent Cloud Storage Data Leakage" type: "blog" slug: "cloud-storage-data-leakage" published_at: "2017-07-26" modified_at: "2025-05-09" url: "https://www.sumologic.com/blog/cloud-storage-data-leakage" canonical: "https://www.sumologic.com/blog/cloud-storage-data-leakage" markdown_url: "https://www.sumologic.com/blog/cloud-storage-data-leakage.md" lang: "en" excerpt: "Three simple steps you can take to help protect your data and prevent breaches in AWS S3 - video by George Gerchow." taxonomy_blog_category: - "Compliance" - "DevOps & IT Operations" - "SecOps & Security" --- [ All blogs ](https://www.sumologic.com/blog "blog")[Compliance](https://www.sumologic.com/blog/compliance), [DevOps & IT Operations](https://www.sumologic.com/blog/devops-it-operations), [SecOps & Security](https://www.sumologic.com/blog/secops-security) # How to prevent Cloud Storage Data Leakage [George Gerchow](#blog-author-block-133) July 26, 2017 1 min read [Compliance](https://www.sumologic.com/blog/compliance), [DevOps & IT Operations](https://www.sumologic.com/blog/devops-it-operations), [SecOps & Security](https://www.sumologic.com/blog/secops-security) ##### Table of contents Cloud Data Breaches are on the rise because organizations do not leverage best practices and make recommended configuration changes to their S3 instances in AWS. As companies transition to the cloud, they should study the shared responsibility model and settle for the default settings. If you take these three simple steps you can help protect your data and prevent breaches in S3. ### Article Tags - [Compliance](https://www.sumologic.com/blog/compliance) - [DevOps & IT Operations](https://www.sumologic.com/blog/devops-it-operations) - [SecOps & Security](https://www.sumologic.com/blog/secops-security) George Gerchow CSO and SVP of IT As Sumo Logic’s CSO and SVP of IT, George Gerchow brings over 20 years of information technology and systems management expertise to the application of IT processes and disciplines. George has been on the bleeding edge of public cloud security, privacy and modernizing IT systems since being a co-founder of the VMware Center for Policy & Compliance. He is a Faculty Member for [IANS](https://www.iansresearch.com/our-faculty/faculty/detail/%5Bf669d9a7-009d-4d83-ddaa-000000000002%5D2CFAB8BA-3C3D-440F-AC51-75AE8FD0D8A6) – [Institute of Applied Network Security ](https://www.iansresearch.com/our-faculty/faculty/detail/%5Bf669d9a7-009d-4d83-ddaa-000000000002%5D2CFAB8BA-3C3D-440F-AC51-75AE8FD0D8A6) and sits on several industry advisory boards. Mr. Gerchow is also a known philanthropist and CEO of a nonprofit corporation, [XFoundation](https://www.xfoundationx.org/). [](https://www.sumologic.com/feed "RSS Feed")[](https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=How%20to%20prevent%20Cloud%20Storage%20Data%20Leakage&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sumologic.com%2Fblog%2Fcloud-storage-data-leakage "X")[](https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sumologic.com%2Fblog%2Fcloud-storage-data-leakage "Facebook")[](https://www.linkedin.com/sharing/share-offsite/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sumologic.com%2Fblog%2Fcloud-storage-data-leakage "Linkedin") [Previous blog Jenkins, Continuous Integration and You: How to Develop a CI Pipeline with Jenkins](https://www.sumologic.com/blog/jenkins-developing-ci-pipeline)[Next blog Monitoring and troubleshooting using AWS CloudWatch logs](https://www.sumologic.com/blog/aws-cloudwatch-logs-monitoring) People who read this also enjoyed [ Sumo Logic AWS Region European Sovereign Cloud is now generally available June 2, 2026 ](https://www.sumologic.com/blog/sumo-logic-aws-region-european-sovereign-cloud-generally-available)[ Rethinking data governance and global compliance February 18, 2026 ](https://www.sumologic.com/blog/rethinking-data-governance-global-compliance)[ NIS2: Prepping your cybersecurity plan December 19, 2023 ](https://www.sumologic.com/blog/nis2-prepping-your-cybersecurity-plan)[ Cyber attackers hit the jackpot: learn why casinos aren’t the only ones vulnerable September 19, 2023 ](https://www.sumologic.com/blog/cyber-attackers-jackpot-vulnerabilities) [AI Instructions](https://www.sumologic.com/ai-instructions.md)