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A Deep Dive Into The Multi-Cloud Mess & How AlgoSec Connects the Dots
Do you ever feel like your job in security is less about securing things and more about playing detective? That was Adolfo Lopez’s life before he joined AlgoSec. Network engineer by trade. Sales engineer by choice. And he jumped into cybersecurity because, well, it’s never boring.
Dani Woolf
09 May • Read Time: 5 minutes
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Do you ever feel like your job in security is less about securing things and more about playing detective?
That was Adolfo Lopez’s life before he joined AlgoSec.
Network engineer by trade. Sales engineer by choice.
And he jumped into cybersecurity because, well, it’s never boring.
“I always try to relate everything back to my experience. I was a network engineer a lot longer than I’ve been doing this.”
This dude’s been in the trenches - ripping out data centers, moving workloads to AWS, and watching security get left behind in the race to the cloud.
And guess what?
That problem hasn’t changed.
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The Multi-Cloud Mess: Too Many Teams, Too Many Tools, Too Many Blind Spots
Picture this:
Your org is shifting everything to the cloud (because agility, right?).
DevOps is running fast.
The cloud team is doing its thing.
NetEng is buried in routing tables.
Security? Playing catch-up.
“By the time I got my hands on a security group or an application, somebody had already been working on it… sometimes it was wide open.”
This isn’t an outlier.
It’s the norm.
Security gets bolted on after the fact.
And by the time someone finally asks, “Hey, who set this up?”—it’s too late.
And when teams realize they need better visibility?
They start chasing acronyms.
CSPM. CNAPP. ASPM.
“The cloud security space is really saturated… I’ve been to AWS conferences, and you hear all these acronyms. I don’t like using them.”
Because at the end of the day, no one cares what three-letter category a tool falls into.
They just need to know what’s exposed and how to fix it.
The Biggest Security Question Nobody Can Answer
“When I was in change review meetings, nobody cared about the technical details. They just wanted to know: What’s going to be impacted?”
Sounds simple, right?
Except it’s not.
Because answering that question means tracing:
Who owns what?
Where is it running?
What firewall rules apply?
What’s connected to what?
Is this an actual risk or just noise?
If you can’t answer that in under 30 seconds, you’re flying blind.
How AlgoSec Connects the Dots (Without the Detective Work)
What makes AlgoSec different?
They flipped the whole security monitoring approach upside down.
“Most people focus on policies. We focus on applications.”
Think about it.
No one outside of security wakes up thinking about firewall rules.
They think about the app they need to run their business.
So instead of throwing you a pile of alerts, AlgoSec shows you:
How an app is built (on-prem, cloud, hybrid—doesn’t matter)
Who owns it (no more Slack messages asking, “Do you know what this is?”)
Where security gaps exist (and which ones actually matter)
How to fix it (without breaking production)
And it does this automatically - no CLI commands, no duct-taped Excel sheets, no endless ticket loops.
“We take all that manual detective work and shrink it to seconds.”
Why This Actually Matters
Most security teams aren’t struggling because they lack expertise.
They’re struggling because they’re drowning in complexity.
Multi-cloud. Containers. Hybrid environments. Different security models across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
The tech isn’t slowing down.
And neither are attackers.
The only way to keep up?
Stop looking at security in silos.
Security should move at the speed of business, not slow it down.
And if you can’t answer “What’s going to be impacted?” in seconds, something’s gotta change.
Want to see how this works in real life?
Adolfo and the team at AlgoSec are obsessed with making security simple.
If you want to hear more from Adolfo Lopez, check out the full episode of Audience 1st.
You can get a more in-depth demo of how their platform works here or hit up Adolfo directly.
Until next time,
Dani
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