Regarding cybersecurity, misconfigurations can create exploitable issues that can cause vulnerabilities later. The following are some common-sense security misconfigurations that can easily be avoided.[1]
Development permissions that do not get changed when something goes live. For example, AWS S3 buckets are often assigned permissive access while development is going on. The issues arise when security reviews are not carefully performed prior to pushing the code live, no matter if that push