CDR solutions are designed to monitor activity across your multicloud environment in real time. They use AI-assisted threat detection, behavioral analytics, and telemetry from cloud-native resources to reveal risks that traditional tools might miss.
Here are the steps a CDR solution takes to helps organizations identify and mitigate cloud threats:
Ingest cloud telemetry CDR tools collect logs, events, and metadata from cloud services such as compute instances, storage, identities, APIs, and workloads. Sources include AWS CloudTrail, Azure Monitor, Google Cloud Logging, and Kubernetes audit logs.
Analyze behavior in real time Using a combination of rule-based logic, machine learning, behavioral analytics, and threat intelligence, CDR analyzes this telemetry to detect anomalies, policy violations, and
indicators of compromise (IOCs), flagging suspicious behavior such as:
- Unusual access patterns.
- Sudden privilege escalation.
- Data exfiltration attempts.
- Lateral movement across services.
Correlate across environments CDR platforms unify signals from across multicloud and hybrid environments. This correlation helps build context and tell the complete cyberattack story, leading to more accurate detections and faster investigations.
Alert and prioritize Detections are designated as prioritized alerts, often enriched with context—such as affected users, assets, severity, and suggested next steps—to reduce noise and speed up triage.
Automate response actions To stop cyberattacks quickly, CDR solutions can automatically:
- Isolate a compromised VM or container.
- Revoke access credentials.
- Block malicious IPs.
- Roll back changes in infrastructure-as-code deployments.
Feed into broader security operations CDR integrates with XDR,
SIEM, and
SOAR systems to correlate alerts across entities, provide a complete picture of the cyberthreat landscape, and support coordinated response across cloud and on-premises assets.
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