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Securing the Weakest Links in Today’s Public Cloud
Environments
By Avi Shua, CEO, Orca Security
The demand for cloud security is continuing to explode, with short-term needs being accelerated by the
shift to remote work during the pandemic. According to Gartner, the Cloud Security market is projected
to grow 33 percent by the end of 2020, as deployments and threats increase in tandem.
Public cloud security is fundamentally a shared responsibility, and as adoption grows, organizations must
remember that just one gap in cloud coverage can lead to devastating data breaches. Missed cloud
workload vulnerabilities happen because most organizations depend on installing and maintaining
individual security agents across all their assets. But this intensive effort is easier said than done, as our
latest research confirms.
Top Vulnerabilities in Public Cloud Environments
According to the Orca Security 2020 State of Public Cloud Security Report, organizations are lacking in
three key areas for securing their cloud assets running on AWS, Azure and GCP. These areas include
securing frontline workloads, minimizing lateral movement risk to internal servers, and improving weak
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