Is Cloud Security Ready For A Pivot To Behavioral Detection & Response
Security Boulevard, Monday, September 2nd, 2024
Signature-based threat detection has been a central figure in cybersecurity from the start. However, its history in endpoint and network security reveals that the inherent limitations of signature-based approaches have often driven practitioners and vendors to shift toward behavioral methods.
Signatures have been called many things, including 'heuristics' and 'rules'. The bottom line is that signature-based detection relies on matching. This could mean matching a bit of a known attack, like an IP address or a file. Or it could mean matching a piece of code to known viruses or malware. Signature-based detection tries to match current traffic, behavior or activity to a list of 'known malicious components.'
Have the criteria to shift to behavioral methods been met in cloud security? The history of signature-based detection is a good starting point for the analysis.