Here are two critical statistics to consider: By 2025, 95% of new applications will be launched on cloud-native platforms. Additionally, in 2023, 90% of teams utilizing containers and Kubernetes reported experiencing a security breach.
RAD Security highlights these figures to underscore the difficulties enterprise defenders face in detecting supply chain and cloud-based threats. The cybersecurity startup provides a behavioral cloud detection and response solution designed to establish a “consistent, predictable, behavioral baseline” for an organization’s cloud environment, enabling the identification of unusual activities, according to their responses to emailed questions from Dark Reading.
This method, termed “behavioral workload fingerprinting” by RAD Security, involves creating behavioral fingerprints that reflect the deduplicated hierarchy of programs, processes, and files exhibited by a container image during runtime. These fingerprints, generated through a proprietary algorithm, contain “golden signals” that encapsulate key metrics and behaviors indicating the health and security status of each container, according to the company.
RAD Security’s system detects “drift events”—deviations from the established baseline—and incorporates posture and identity context to help defenders comprehend the occurrences within the environment.
“Anomaly detection isn’t something you can directly validate within your environment as it operates like a black box,” the company explains. “Additionally, there aren’t enough cloud attacks to use machine learning for analyzing millions of attacks and discovering new ones.”
RAD Security asserts that their approach is well-suited for cloud environments because it is transparent and portable.
The team aims to make behavioral fingerprints the standard for behavioral detection and response in cloud security, covering everything from the early stages of the software supply chain to runtime, according to RAD Security.
Earlier this year, RAD Security transitioned from being known as Kubernetes Security Operations Center (KSOC), reflecting an expanded scope beyond being a top Kubernetes security solution. The name “RAD Security” signifies something radically exciting and demonstrates a break from conventional approaches, according to the company. It is intended to be straightforward, mirroring the simplicity of their solution.
As a finalist in this year’s Black Hat Startup Spotlight competition, RAD Security will join DryRun Security, Knostic, and LeakSignal in presenting their business models to a panel of judges at the Black Hat USA Conference in Las Vegas on Tuesday, August 6. The judging panel includes Ketaki Borade (senior analyst, Omdia), Coleen Coolidge (CISO adviser, SF Info Security), Trey Ford (CISO adviser), Hollie Hennessy (senior analyst, Omdia), Maria Markstedter (founder and CEO, Azeria Labs), Lucas Nelson (founding partner, Lytical Ventures), Robert J Stratton III (venture partner, NextGen Venture Partners), and Rik Turner (principal analyst, Omdia). In this “Shark Tank”-style competition, each finalist will present their technology and respond to questions from the judges.
Finalists will also showcase their technologies on the exhibition floor at Black Hat. Attendees visiting RAD Security’s booth can watch demonstrations of their platform. The company has also unveiled new features designed to revolutionize cloud investigation processes.
