How do you bridge the visibility gaps in multi-cloud environments?

Don't overlook the identity aspect! While we're often focused on storage and VMs, identities like roles, service accounts, and tokens can act like shadow IT. Known vulnerabilities often come from permissions rather than resources. It’s easy to lose track of them, even with scanners.

A big part of the issue is the sprawl of resources across teams. Each cloud team ends up adding exceptions and temporary resources for their projects, and before long, there's no consensus on what the environment should look like. To tackle this, try consolidating all assets, identities, and configurations into a single source of truth and stick to it. This can help manage the drift between your mental model and the actual infrastructure.

Understanding how different risks interconnect across clouds can be just as important as spotting issues. Tools often show fragments, but the real challenge is piecing everything together. That's where platforms like Orca come in, as they help connect identities, configurations, and workload signals into a cohesive view.

I get what you mean—it's like cloud environments are a massive lost and found! You think you've got a grasp on everything, but stuff just vanishes. It's frustrating, but I find that being skeptical about what you see can help.

Some people lean towards using dashboards, but those only show what the tools manage to find. A more effective long-term solution is to reduce the surface area that needs monitoring. Standardizing configurations and using strict deployment pipelines can help limit the unexpected stuff that pops up, meaning less can go missing.