The long-standing security paradigm of achieving "visibility" through tools like SIEM and SOAR is fundamentally broken for the modern, dynamic cloud, necessitating a shift toward real-time context and understanding, according to Forbes.
In a traditional model, visibility was seen as the solution, but it has become an endpoint that fails to provide the context needed to interpret constant, automated change. As Or Shoshani, CEO of Stream Security, noted, "If I had a full picture of the cloud right now, it would already be wrong."
The cloud now operates like a living organism, with ephemeral workloads and AI-driven changes that render static security snapshots obsolete. This demands a new approach that continuously models the cloud environment, focusing on relationships and behavior patterns rather than just logging events. Gopal Padinjaruveetil, CISO of AAA, emphasized the need to "see our cloud as a living system."
The rise of agentic AI, which acts at machine speed, further exposes the inadequacy of legacy models.
