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A new architecture for modern cloud defense

Most security tools show pieces of cloud activity, but miss how events and data connect across layers. Cloud context reveals the full story: how identities, configurations, behavior, and workloads interact in real time. With this visibility, security teams can detect, investigate, and respond to threats with speed and precision.

Traditional security tools focus on scanning files written to disks, but what happens when no file ever lands there? Fileless attacks bypass static analysis and disk-based detection by executing directly in memory, often through existing tools like Bash, Python, or PowerShell. Although the Linux system call has benefits for software development, especially in the cloud, including use in sandbox frameworks, containerized applications, and temporary computations, those benefits are manipulated by threat actors to carry out attacks.

Real-time cloud visibility is the foundation for modern incident response. It lowers MTTD, MTTC, and MTTR. It empowers every SOC tier. And it turns scattered workflows into one seamless response.

We're an industry obsessed with what we do, but often at the expense of why it matters.

Powered by Stream’s proprietary CloudTwin that gathers real-time cloud context from network activity, behavioral signals, and configuration changes, Stream Guided Response can predict the impact of response actions across all cloud layers. This moves response planning beyond playbooks, enabling tailored mitigation per incident based on breach scope, resolution paths, and potential business impact.

By now, you’ve probably read Verizon’s 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) (or skimmed the highlights on LinkedIn.) Ransomware attacks are up. Credentials are leaking like a broken pipe. Exploits are targeting your edge devices. You know the drill. But let’s step back. What the DBIR really reveals, beneath the usual stats and graphs, is something much bigger. It exposes a fundamental misalignment in how most organizations think about cloud security.

In a recent webinar, Stav Sitnikov, Chief Product Officer at Stream Security, and Tushar Kothari, Former CEO and Board Member of Attivo Networks, explored how organizations can turn the tables on cyber attackers using Stream Traps—deceptive cloud decoys designed to detect and delay malicious actors.

Cloud traps, deception assets embedded in cloud infrastructure, offer a proactive way to detect, delay, and divert attackers, buying security teams the signals and context they need to respond effectively. Rather than chasing faster MTTR alone, cloud traps focus on slowing the adversary down — turning every interaction into a tactical advantage for defenders.