How Modern SOC Teams Use AI and Context to Quickly Investigate Cloud Breach
Cloud attacks move fast – faster than most incident response teams.
In data centers, the investigation was time consuming. Teams can collect disk images, review logs, and create timelines within days. In the cloud, infrastructure is temporary. A vulnerable event can disappear in minutes. Identity revolves around. Logs expire. Evidence can disappear before analysis can begin.
Cloud forensics is very different from traditional forensics. If investigations still rely on manual logging, attackers already have an advantage.
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Why Traditional Incident Response Fails in the Cloud
Many teams face the same problem: alerts without context.
You might find a suspicious API call, a new identity login, or unusual data access – but the full attack mechanism remains unclear across the board.
Attackers use this visibility gap to compromise parties, escalate privileges, and access critical assets before responders are able to connect the operation.
To investigate a cloud breach successfully, three skills are essential:
- Host Level Visibility: See what happened within the workloads, not just the control plane activity.
- Content Map: Understand how ownership, workload, and data assets are connected.
- Automatic Evidence Capture: If evidence collection starts manually, it starts too late.
What Modern Cloud Forensics Looks Like
In this webinar, you’ll see how automated, context-aware forensics works in real-world investigations. Instead of collecting separate evidence, incidents are reconstructed using related signals such as activity telemetry, identity activity, API activity, network movement, and asset relationships.
This allows teams to reconstruct complete attack timelines in minutes, with full environmental context.
Cloud investigations often stop because evidence lives on all disconnected systems. Identity logs reside in one console, workload telemetry in another, and network signals in another. Analysts must rotate tools just to ensure a single warning, slow response and increase the chance of missing an attacker’s move.
Modern cloud forensics combines these signals into a unified layer of investigation. By correlating proprietary actions, workload behavior, and flight control activity, teams gain clear visibility into how intrusions occur — not where alerts are triggered.
Investigations range from active log reviews to systematic attack reconstructions. Analysts can track the sequence of access, movement, and impact with context linked to each step.
The result is faster scoping, clearer attribution of attacker actions, and more confident remediation decisions – without relying on fragmented deployments or delayed evidence collection.
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