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Key Takeaways In the cloud, identities accumulate permissions they never use, and every unused permission is a reachable path for an attacker who lands on that identity. Most of those identities are not people. They are roles, service accounts, functions, and CI/CD pipelines, and they often hold far more access than the workload behind them […] The post Cloud Least Privilege: Principles, Best Practices & How to Enforce It appeared first on Orca Security .

Key Takeaways Entitlement sprawl is the gradual buildup of access rights that cloud identities hold but do not need. The same phenomenon goes by several names: privilege creep, permission creep, entitlement creep, access sprawl, permission sprawl, identity sprawl, and access creep all describe one thing; identities accumulating permissions over time and almost never giving them […] The post Entitlement Sprawl: What It Is and How to Control It in the Cloud appeared first on Orca Security .

Key Takeaways CIEM tools find, prioritize, and right-size the permissions attached to cloud identities. They matter because cloud environments have become increasingly driven by identities: machine and service identities now outnumber human users many times over in a typical account, and most of them hold permissions they never use. That gap between granted and used […] The post Best CIEM Tools in 2026: The Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management Buyer’s Guide appeared first on Orca Security .

Key Takeaways ITDR (Identity Threat Detection and Response) detects and responds to identity-based attacks in real time: credential theft, token abuse, anomalous privilege use, and account takeover. Gartner introduced the term in 2022 to describe the gap between authentication and runtime identity abuse. IAM may decide who gets in, but ITDR monitors how a legitimate-looking […] The post ITDR for the Cloud: Identity Threat Detection and Response Explained appeared first on Orca Security .

Key Takeaways IAM, PAM, and CIEM all manage “access,” which is exactly why teams confuse them. The acronyms sound interchangeable, and every vendor draws the lines a little differently. They solve genuinely different problems, and in the cloud the gaps between them are where breaches happen. Here is the short version. Identity and Access Management […] The post CIEM vs IAM vs PAM: What’s the Difference (and Do You Need All Three)? appeared first on Orca Security .

Key Takeaways HIPAA compliance in the cloud is the practice of protecting electronic protected health information (ePHI) to the standard set by the HIPAA Rules while that data is stored and processed in cloud services like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. It combines the Privacy Rule, the Security Rule, and the Breach Notification Rule with […] The post HIPAA Compliance in the Cloud: The Complete Framework Guide appeared first on Orca Security .

A critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-33017, CVSS 9.8) was disclosed affecting Langflow, a widely used open-source AI application builder, allowing attackers to execute arbitrary code on the server via a single unauthenticated HTTP request. Due to the potential for full system compromise, data theft, and lateral movement across enterprise networks, immediate patching is required. About CVE-2026-33017 The […] The post Langflow RCE Actively Exploited to Deploy Cryptominers on AI Infrastructure appeared first on Orca Security .

For a while, a chat box was enough. You asked an agent a question, it gave you a few sentences back, and you moved on. The interface matched the work. That stopped being true. Agents now return whole investigations. Ask Claude to triage an alert and it calls Orca’s MCP tools to pull the asset, […] The post Orca MCP: When Text Stops Scaling appeared first on Orca Security .

Material Event filed 2026-07-01

Kubernetes compliance tools automate the enforcement of CIS Benchmarks, enabling teams to continuously validate cluster configurations against industry-accepted security baselines without slowing release velocity. The right tooling replaces manual audits with policy-driven checks that run across the CI/CD pipeline, from build to runtime, catching misconfigurations before they reach production. Maintaining multi-cloud compliance across dozens or […] The post Kubernetes Compliance Tools: Automating CIS Benchmarks appeared first on Orca Security .

Key Takeaways Risk-based vulnerability management (RBVM) is the practice of prioritizing vulnerabilities by the actual risk they pose to your environment, rather than by raw severity, so your team fixes what is genuinely dangerous before what merely scores high. It evaluates vulnerabilities in the context of the asset they affect, its exposure, and the data […] The post Risk-Based Vulnerability Management for the Cloud: A 2026 Guide appeared first on Orca Security .