By Colter Cookson The growing popularity of remote work has motivated hackers to target corporate clouds, business insurance provider Hiscox warns in an August report on cybersecurity readiness across sectors. Forty-one percent of the cybersecurity professionals surveyed for the report identified cloud servers as the entry point for an attack they had experienced. " The main way in for hackers is corporate servers, and there has been a big jump in the numbers reporting entry by cloud server, " the report reads. " This aligns with the warning from international agencies that bad actors are increasingly targeting cloud infrastructure. " But attacks on the energy industry fell sharply between 2021 and 2022. While the report does not speculate on the cause, it's possible the 2021 ransomware attack that temporarily shut down the Colonial Pipeline spurred energy firms to strengthen their defenses and made them less attractive targets. 52 THE AMERICAN OIL & GAS REPORTER