Cloud computing offers numerous benefits but also presents significant security challenges like data breaches, misconfigurations, insecure APIs, limited visibility, identity and access management issues, account hijacking attacks, cyberattacks, insider threats, shadow IT, skills shortage, staffing problems, and compliance issues. Organizations need to address these challenges through steps like data risk assessments, encryption, incident response plans, regular monitoring, MFA, least privilege, security awareness training, and implementing cloud security policies. ```
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