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    Promoted | Maxtec's Praven Pillay and Orca Security's Sagy Kratu join TechCentral's James Erasmus for a fascinating conversation about security in the public cloud.
    By Maxtec and Orca Security10 October 2022
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    Unless you have 100% visibility and are continuously scanning your cloud environment, you are vulnerable. According to recent research by Orca Security, 78% of identified attack paths use known vulnerabilities (CVEs) as an initial access attack vector.

    This is significant because most entry points that are exploited can relatively easily be prevented since these CVEs are already known and the vast majority already have remediations available.

    Praven Pillay, MD of Maxtec, and Sagy Kratu, director of enablement and an evangelist at Orca Security, joined James Erasmus for a brief but fascinating conversation about the harsh realities of public cloud security.

    Maxtec is the exclusive distributor for Orca Security in Southern Africa and has offered to guide anyone watching or listening to this episode of TechCentral’s Impact Series through a free-risk assessment and a free 30-day trial of the Orca platform.

    With local support from Maxtec, the Orca platform connects to your environment in minutes and provides 100% visibility of all your assets. It detects and prioritises cloud risks across every layer of your cloud estate, including vulnerabilities, malware, misconfigurations, lateral movement risk, weak and leaked passwords, and overly permissive identities.

    The adoption of public cloud is accelerating. Consider your cloud investment and ask if you are truly secure. This report (PDF) suggests you might not be. 

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