One of the most important aspects of public cloud security is how to detect and fix security blind spots in the public cloud environment. Sujit Nair shares his insights on addressing the security challenges in this area.

Sujit Nair is a part of Palo Alto Network’s Public Cloud Consulting Engineering team. Irrespective of public or on-premise private cloud, the deployment process and tooling for cloud environments look similar, but there are a variety of nuances that are different and easy to overlook. Failing to recognize and account for these differences can result in misconfigurations which lead to security blind spots in the cloud architecture.

Sujit shares more about what the trends in cloud adoption are, and how they may be giving rise to security blind spots because of complexities in the public cloud environment. He also shares insights about the common situations that come up and how organizations can best identify, detect and address these blind spots, as well as how Prisma Cloud is an effective solution.

Key Takeaways:

[:22] Sujit Nair introduces himself and the topic for this episode.

[1:01] What are the trends in cloud adoption?

[1:57] Why are enterprises that have adopted the public cloud concerned about security?

[3:23] How can complexities in the public cloud environment create security blind spots?

[4:19] What are some of the common situations that lead to security blind spots? Sujit shares some of the classic blind spot scenarios that come up.

[10:21] How can organizations identify security blind spots in their public cloud environment, and what are some of the best practices to avoid them?

[12:32] Sujit explains why a cloud-native security platform is the best option to overcome security challenges, and how Prisma Cloud can fill this need.

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