Frequently Asked Questions
Cloud and Application Detection and Response (CADR): The Essentials
Let's ChatBehavioral Cloud Application Detection & Response (CADR)
Cloud attacks are never single dimensional
Attackers don’t respect your cloud silos, and neither should your cybersecurity.
ARMO CADR replaces fragmented alerts from a patchwork of legacy systems with a unified approach. Its explainability connects the dots between attack signals from code to cloud, providing a single, coherent attack story instead of a barrage of disjointed alerts, enabling security teams to respond swiftly and effectively.
{Explainability Is the New Visibility}
Experience holistic, explainable, and automated protection for runtime threats in the cloud
ARMO CADR is the first runtime security solution to provide a comprehensive view of threats, from the exploited line of the application code to the cloud API where data resides. It safeguards all applications and workloads running on worker nodes, EC2, serverless environments, and VMs.
Code-to-cloud explainability and traceability
Empowers security teams to quickly detect, understand, and respond to threats. It traces signals throughout the cloud environment, to create an explainable incident, delivered as textual and graphic attack narratives, that connect the dots across code, containers, clusters, and cloud resources.
Supply Chain Security
Compares current and historical application profiles and highlights new processes, DNS endpoints, external network connections, and data access patterns. This detailed analysis flags anomalies consistent with potential supply chain attacks in a side-by-side view facilitating confirmation or rejection of the changes.
Function-level Anomaly Detection
Correlates application function-level behavior, based on runtime call stack analysis, with network traffic and infrastructure events, enabling prompt identification of known and novel threats. Reducing MTTD and MTTR, blast radius and potential downtime, ensuring system resilience.
Prevention
Prevents attacks with automatic generation of seccomp profiles and network policies, severely limiting the capability of attackers to leverage vulnerabilities in the system to mount attacks. This approach reduces the blast radius by 50%, significantly minimizing the potential impact of zero-day vulnerabilities.
Blast Radius Analysis
Offers insights for effective threat containment and response, based on a visual representation of all resources that could be impacted by an active attack. It highlights affected resources, their interactions, and potential exploitable pathways. This includes resources an attacker could pivot to and credentials they may exploit.
Advanced Response Capabilities
Automated, policy-driven responses reduce manual work and response times. Responses range from container-level controls like termination and isolation, to VM, node and host management like workload evacuation. Network and access protections include rotating credentials, with data safeguards like encryption and rollbacks.
Application Layer Protection
Ensures application and API security against evolving threats and attacks like SQL injection and SSRF. Detects malicious payloads in network traffic, as they attempt to compromise applications, provides visibility of the API layer of applications with ability to highlight malicious payloads.
AI-generated Attack Story
Offers a natural-language incident summary detailing the attack flow, including: each stage in the incident; responses taken; and suggested solutions to prevent recurrence. It also provides input for forensics, root cause analysis, and remediation, ensuring better preparedness for future threats.
"ARMO CADR potentially replaces 10,000 static rules, necessary to cover the MITRE ATT&CK framework, with a single behavioral analysis model."
- Security Engineer, Fortune 500 company
How it works
{Application Profile DNA - APD}
ARMO Platform uses an eBPF-based runtime sensor to record application behavior activities such as: process activities, file-based activities, network activities, system calls activities and more.
The recorded baseline is then enriched with relevant context from Kubernetes events, CICD data, cloud data and containers data, resulting in a holistic baseline for applications’ normal behavior and their profile DNA.
ARMO CADR is a behavioral security solution designed to protect cloud applications. It records a baseline of applications’ expected behavior and uses automated behavioral analysis to detect and respond to known aND UNKNOWN anomalies, providing a comprehensive view of threats across cloud environments.
ARMO CADR focuses on runtime behavioral analysis, which allows it to detect and respond to zero-day and everyday threats without relying solely on known signatures or rules. This approach enables proactive security measures that can identify threats early. It provides policy-based automatic responses so that attacks can be halted even if the root cause is not immediately addressed.
Since modern cyberattacks are rarely single-dimensional, ARMO CADR is designed to provide visibility from code-to-cloud, including Kubernetes and application level APIs, to name a few, providing runtime security insights across the entire cloud stack. This integration helps secure containerized environments and supports the evolving security needs of cloud-native applications and the infrastructure they depend on.
ARMO CADR improves cloud security cost savings and ROI by streamlining key processes. Automated learning of application behavior reduces configuration and maintenance costs. Once configured, it quickly analyzes security events, minimizing the time and resources needed to address threats. Its ability to detect zero-day vulnerabilities prevents costly attacks, eliminating the need for expensive remediation and potential financial losses. CADR also enables flexible vulnerability patching, due pinpointing the threats and providing immediate remediation. Thus, allowing organizations to schedule updates efficiently and minimize disruptions to production.
As a whole ARMO provides protection for on-prem and even air-gapped environments running cloud-native architecture. In this case ARMO CADR does not require a cloud account and the attack graph and related information will not include the cloud layer. It will focus on the VMs, containers, workloads and application layers.
Continue as a guest