** The world is facing a growing need for cybersecurity professionals to tackle the rising threat of cyberattacks as the adoption of cloud computing continues to accelerate. The shortage of 2.7 million cybersecurity experts globally makes automation crucial in tackling this challenge. Nation-state actors and critical infrastructure are identified as three major threat vectors with potential for large-scale and global impact in 2022, including tensions between Russia and Ukraine and China's growing cyber capabilities. Security risks associated with moving government workloads to the cloud, containers, and multi-cloud environments also pose significant challenges. The "curse of abundance" caused by numerous cloud security services can lead to complexity and misconfiguration issues, while organizations must navigate multiple cloud vendors and implement CASB solutions to detect multi-cloud configuration drift. Governments are also adopting multiple clouds, making nation-state actors a potential threat in this new attack vector landscape.