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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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