Why CNAPP Needs Cloud Detection and Response for Hybrid-Cloud Threats
Summary
The article explains how CNAPP’s prevention focus can leave runtime and on-premises blind spots, and argues that monitoring identity, network, and cloud activity together helps detect and respond to cross-domain threats.
Key points
- CNAPPs help manage cloud posture, vulnerabilities, attack paths, and secure deployment, but the article says their focus is largely preventive.
- The article warns that cloud-focused tools may leave on-premises workloads and hybrid environments with visibility gaps.
- Attackers can use compromised credentials to move across identity, network, SaaS, and cloud systems; a misconfiguration finding alone may not reveal its exploitation.
- Monitoring human and non-human identities alongside cloud runtime and network activity can help surface anomalous behavior and connect events into a unified investigation.
- The article cites a 2024 CISA warning about SolarWinds attackers targeting cloud infrastructure and non-human identities.
- Darktrace promotes its cloud detection and response product as a complement to CNAPP, claiming it provides real-time behavioral detection and response.
Article Details
- Topic
- The limitations of CNAPP and the role of Cloud Detection and Response (CDR) in real-time cross-domain cloud security.
Vendors
Products
CNAPPof security tools, each designed to cover just one slice of the cloud security puzzle. Then there’s CNAPP (Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform) — a broad platform promising to do it all but often fallingDarktrace / CLOUDDarktrace / CLOUD's CDR approach enhances CNAPP by providing the essential detection and native response needed to protect against cross-domain threats. Its agentless, default setup is both cost-effective and scalable,