RSAC 2024: Pentera Adds Automated Penetration Testing in the Cloud

Jay Mar-Tang, AVP, Field CISO at Pentera, joins Dark Reading's Terry Sweeney at News Desk during RSA Conference to discuss the major issues customers face with cloud management and security.

Jay Mar-Tang, AVP, Field CISO at Pentera, joins Dark Reading's Terry Sweeney at News Desk during RSA Conference to discuss the major issues customers face with cloud management and security and talks about the features and capabilities of the Pentera Cloud and what differentiates it from other players in cloud security management. He explains how Pentera’s holistic approach to management enables customers to validate attacks across all aspects of the attack surface. And he discusses how Pentera Cloud differs from cloud security posture management (CSPM) and cloud-native application protection platforms (CNAPP).

Jay Mar-Tang has been in the IT industry over 15 years, with over 13 years of cyber security experience. He earned his CISSP in 2014 and CCSP in 2023. During his career he has worked in 3 different geographies which include Mid Atlantic, New York City and the west coast of the United States. He has spent years engineering different solutions for clients of all verticals, such as Multi Factor Authentication (MFA), Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Security Information Event Management (SIEM), Network Detection and Response (NDR), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) and Privilege Account Management (PAM). Most recently after spending numerous years with blue team defensive technologies, Jay has joined Pentera. In his role Jay advised and engineered red teaming strategies for clients across the United States and Latin America, leading a team of engineers in North and South America. In 2024 Jay was appointed as Field CISO, evangelizing security validation strategies amongst CISO / security practitioner communities as well as the successes Pentera has had amongst its numerous customers.

About the Author

Terry Sweeney, Contributing Editor

Terry Sweeney is a Los Angeles-based writer and editor who has covered technology, networking, and security for more than 20 years. He was part of the team that started Dark Reading and has been a contributor to The Washington Post, Crain's New York Business, Red Herring, Network World, InformationWeek and Mobile Sports Report.

In addition to information security, Sweeney has written extensively about cloud computing, wireless technologies, storage networking, and analytics. After watching successive waves of technological advancement, he still prefers to chronicle the actual application of these breakthroughs by businesses and public sector organizations.


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