Detecting Security System Misconfiguration Threats in Cloud Computing Environments Using AI

Cloud computing solutions are being gradually adopted in organizations, and this has raised a lot of questions about the risks that come with using cloud-based services, especially misconfiguration errors in cloud-based systems. Considering these challenges, the current study aimed to assess the use of AI-based security systems to identify misconfiguration errors in cloud computing platforms. The study has focused on the perceived effectiveness of implementing AI security systems for behavioral analysis, and the implementation of traditional security systems has been assessed. The study utilized an exploratory qualitative review approach analyzing the recent studies and the recent literature available on recognized databases of interest with a particular focus on the prevalence of misconfiguration errors, its importance for early detection, and the use of AI methods. The study results showed that the most significant threat and the main reason for cloud insecurity and breaches lie in cloud misconfiguration. However, the analysis of the study also exposed that AI and machine learning techniques have a promising future and could be enacted as an accurate technique for the automation of the early misconfiguration detection model. Furthermore, the research has also pointed out that planning and deception-based approaches and human factors analysis can also be used in an attempt to strengthen cloud security against misconfiguration threats. In general, the study has postulated that the enhancement of optimum AI-based security systems is fundamental to optimizing the misconfiguration error detection systems and the security of data in cloud computing.