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Vectra AI reveals cybersecurity blind spots in PaaS and IaaS environments

New report finds 100 % of companies have experienced a security incident , but continue to expand their footprint as 64 % report deploying new AWS services weekly .

Vectra AI , a leader in threat detection and response , has released the findings of the PaaS and IaaS Security Survey Report . The report compiled the answers of 317 IT executives all using AWS , 70 % coming from organisation of 1,000 plus employees . The findings show a rapid expansion and reliance on AWS services while simultaneously showcasing security blind spots within many organisations .

As Digital Transformation efforts continue , the survey found that AWS is becoming an even more critical component to organisations who are regularly deploying new workloads , leveraging deployments in multiple regions and are relying on more than one AWS service . The survey found :
• 64 % of DevOps respondents are deploying new workload services weekly or even more frequently
• 78 % of organisations are running AWS across multiple regions ( 40 % in at least three )
• 71 % of respondents say that they are using more than four AWS services ( such as S3 , EC2 , IAM , etc .)
The expansion of AWS services has naturally led to increased complexity and risk with 100 % of
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