What Is Cloud Detection And Response (CDR)?
Search Security, Tuesday, August 20th, 2024
Cloud detection and response (CDR) is an emerging strategy focused on securing cloud environments. CDR monitors for and responds to threats to those cloud environments, be they with large service providers, such as Microsoft, Google or AWS, or in smaller clouds, such as those provided by Vultr and DigitalOcean.
The primary goal of CDR is to provide a deep understanding of a cloud environment and to detect threats. Products and services offered by CDR vendors intend to provide users with answers to questions such as the following:
- Which application programming interfaces are being used?
- Is the multi-cloud environment healthy from a security perspective?
- What are the security thresholds for everything from containers to virtual machines (VMs) to serverless?
Cloud computing can involve everything from endpoints to fully operational networks to large infrastructure -- even on-premises cloud and hybrid infrastructure. Securing resources across such a vast attack surface is difficult. And, because cloud environments are less fixed than traditional IT resources, detection must be more active.