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How to Detect Malicious Intent in the Cloud

Cloud security has long prioritized visibility into issues such as misconfigurations or overpermissive roles. But visibility alone doesn’t stop breaches. 

Modern adversaries operate using stolen credentials and legitimate access, blending seamlessly into normal administrative behavior. This creates a fundamental detection challenge. When every action (including API calls, role changes, and access requests) appears authorized, traditional workload monitoring tools see routine operations, not an attack in progress. Siloed signals across cloud security posture management (CSPM) and workload monitoring tools fail to connect the dots, leaving security teams with fragmented insights instead of a clear breach narrative.

In this video, we examine why modern cloud attacks are so difficult to detect. Learn how cloud detection and response (CDR) within CrowdStrike Falcon® Cloud Security applies adversary-focused detection logic across cloud-native telemetry to identify malicious intent hiding in plain sight.

Watch now to see how CrowdStrike delivers a cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) that detects and stops cloud breaches.

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