40% of all data breaches involve data distributed across multiple cloud environments.The need to maintain a strong security posture in the cloud is exceptionally challenging.The X-Force Cloud Threat Landscape 2024 report analyses which specific rules are most commonly failing.In 100% cloud environments, security rules often fail because of misconfiguring assets.The most commonly failed rule in 100% Cloud-Only environments was configuring essential security and management settings in Linux systems.For hybrid environments, the most commonly failed rule revolves around authentication and cryptography policies.Organizations are turning to Ansible automation to confirm that all rules are correctly followed.Multiple organizations are involved in the cloud environment, and security is a dual responsibility.