As Cybersecurity Awareness Month comes to a close, it’s crucial to spotlight one of the most significant and rapidly evolving areas in cybersecurity—cloud security. As organisations increasingly migrate to the cloud, the threat landscape has become more complex, and the risks have never been greater. Misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, and shadow IT create gaps that malicious actors are all too eager to exploit.
The rise in cloud adoption has also given rise to sophisticated cloud-based cyber threats, including misconfigurations, insecure APIs, and unauthorised access. These risks have impacted companies globally, leading to costly data breaches and service interruptions. Given the scale of potential damage, cloud security is no longer optional—it’s an absolute necessity.
The Cloud Threat Landscape: What Are the Risks?
Cloud environments are particularly vulnerable due to their complexity, dynamic nature, and constant changes. As businesses expand and scale their cloud usage, new risks emerge, and previously secured configurations can become vulnerable. One of the biggest challenges for organisations is risk prioritisation—with so many threats, it can be difficult to determine which risks pose the most immediate danger and require action. Additionally, compliance requirements for standards like Essential 8, ISO, SOC2, and GDPR must be addressed across sprawling cloud infrastructures.
Compounding these challenges is the cybersecurity skills gap that many organisations face. As cloud environments evolve, security teams can struggle to keep pace, leading to friction and fatigue. This can leave gaps in coverage and open the door to breaches.
In light of these challenges, organisations need a single platform that provides complete visibility, prioritised risks, and streamlined compliance management. This is where Orca Security excels—offering the single platform organisations need to secure the cloud. Orca’s platform delivers comprehensive coverage across all cloud assets, provides actionable context for every security alert, and offers comprehensive insights into risks. Moreover, it presents the information in a consumable way, ensuring security teams can act swiftly and effectively to mitigate threats.
Enhancing Essential Eight Compliance with Orca Security
In addition to threat detection, Orca helps businesses achieve compliance with the Essential Eight, a set of security strategies recommended by the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC). These eight strategies focus on reducing risks from ransomware, malware, and other threats through controls like patch management, application whitelisting, and multi-factor authentication.
Orca’s platform aligns closely with Essential Eight compliance by providing visibility into software patching needs, alerting on unpatched systems, monitoring administrative privileges, and ensuring data backups are secure and ready to be restored in the event of a ransomware attack. This comprehensive approach not only helps businesses meet compliance requirements but strengthens their overall security posture.
Orca’s Cloud Risk Security Assessment: Comprehensive, Actionable Insights
For businesses seeking to mitigate these risks, Orca Security offers a comprehensive free-of-charge Cloud Risk Assessment to provide unparalleled visibility into cloud environments, pinpointing vulnerabilities and misconfigurations before they can be exploited.
Here’s how the Orca Risk Assessment process works:
- Onboarding Session
- Assessment Period
- Follow-Up Session
Why Act Now?
Cloud infrastructure is rapidly becoming a preferred target for cybercriminals. With high-profile data breaches on the rise, such as the attacks on Medibank and Optus, it’s clear that any organisation operating in the cloud must prioritise securing its cloud assets. Orca Security’s Risk Assessment offers a proactive way to identify and resolve issues before they become breaches.
This service is not just a one-time assessment—it’s an opportunity for organisations to understand their security gaps and take tangible steps to strengthen their cloud defences. By leveraging Orca’s platform, organisations can gain critical visibility and assurance in their cloud security.
The journey starts with a brief zoom call where we present a sample risk assessment report to demonstrate its value. Contact us today to book a risk assessment and get started by taking the first step toward comprehensive cloud protection.
