In the rapidly evolving landscape of cybersecurity, the need for a robust and intelligent assistant capable of analyzing, summarizing, and reacting to events is paramount. This is why we designed Sysdig SageTM, our large language model (LLM)-based cloud security analyst, to be an expert in cloud detection and response (CDR). Sysdig Sage excels at summarizing complex events and providing clear explanations, which is crucial for identifying and promptly reacting to potential threats.

No executive wants to be blindsided by risks that should have been reasonably anticipated, especially the CEO, CFO, and board members. In the CISO Desk Reference Guide, Gary Hayslip, Bill Bonney, and I wrote extensively about how CISOs play a critical role in contextualizing digital and cyber risks to the organization’s broader enterprise risk management practices.

In recent years, almost every major cloud breach has been marked by overly permissive credentials, followed by lateral movement and privilege escalation. These vulnerabilities have allowed attackers to navigate through systems with ease, escalating their privileges to cause significant harm. It’s crucial for cloud threat responders to be aware of threats as they occur and to be able to contain these attacks swiftly and effectively.

In today’s rapidly changing and evolving cloud-native environments, security and infrastructure teams face challenges ranging from managing complex deployments to ensuring capability across their entirety of their diverse infrastructure. EDR and XDR tools cannot provide comprehensive coverage of cloud workloads, making them fundamentally unsuited for cloud security.

Artificial intelligence has taken over almost every aspect of our everyday lives. In cybersecurity, generative AI models with natural language processing are commonly being used to predict, detect, and respond to threats. But AI security assistants, although an upgrade from traditional machine learning, only provide very basic queries and summarization, which is insufficient to fully comprehend modern cloud attacks. As part of an ongoing effort to improve the cloud detection and response (CDR) experience,

Generative AI (GenAI) is a top priority for organizations looking to increase productivity and solve business problems faster. In cloud security, AI chatbots to aid security practitioners are becoming more common, but to date, most of these solutions offer only basic queries and summarization. Diverse cloud environments and evolving threats require more from an AI security analyst.

Last year, Sysdig outlined our vision for an AI-driven cloud security assistant. Today, we are excited to announce Sysdig Sage for cloud detection and response (CDR), our new release that embodies our vision. Built upon the core principles we introduced, Sysdig Sage offers actionable insights for cloud environments, with a focus on CDR.