The 2024 State of Cloud Security study highlights various security risks and misconfigurations in cloud environments. Long-lived cloud credentials, insecure IAM roles for third-party integrations, and public access to storage services are among the key issues identified. The study recommends minimizing long-lived cloud credentials, using Datadog Cloud Security Management (CSM) to identify and track down stale cloud credentials, enforcing the use of IMDSv2 on Amazon EC2 instances, blocking public access proactively on cloud storage services, limiting privileges assigned to cloud workloads, applying cloud-specific tuning to managed Kubernetes clusters, securing IAM roles used for third-party integrations, and securing infrastructure against common cloud risks. CSM can help identify and mitigate these risks, providing a more secure posture for organizations in the cloud.