Cloud-based alerting systems often struggle to distinguish between normal cloud activity and targeted malicious operations by known threat actors.
The difficulty doesn’t lie in an inability to identify complex alerting operations across thousands of cloud resources or in a failure to follow identity resources, the problem lies in the accurate detection of known persistent threat actor group techniques specifically within cloud environments.
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Source: Palo Alto Unit 42
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