Over the past quarter, the Cado team has been hard at work bringing new features and enhancements to the Cado platform. Here's an overview of what we’ve been up to: 

In today’s fast-paced digital world, security teams face an increasing volume of cyber threats. To keep up, organizations need an incident response solution that accelerates investigations, streamlines workflows, and delivers deep forensic insights. The Cado platform is designed to do just that—empowering security teams with cutting-edge capabilities that transform how they investigate incidents. Here’s how Cado can supercharge your investigations:

Accelerating Investigations with Smarter Log Analysis

Security teams are facing an overwhelming volume of incidents. Manual processes can slow down response times, increasing damage and recovery costs. To counter this, organizations are adopting automation tools to:

Ransomware targeting cloud environments is evolving, leveraging native AWS services to encrypt and disrupt access to critical data. A recent report by Halcyon exposed an attack method in which adversaries use AWS S3’s Server-Side Encryption with Customer-Provided Keys (SSE-C) to lock victims out of their own data.

Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR) is frequently used by organizations as the first line of defense against cyber attacks. EDR platforms monitor organizations’ endpoints (servers, employee laptops, etc) and detect and contain malicious activity running where possible. In this blog, we will be exploring a ransomware attack in a lab environment, using payloads inspired from real attacks.

In 2023, Cado released a blog about how our analysts identified an artifact that will help investigators see what commands were executed by an attacker and the outputs they produced. In this follow-up blog, we will revisit the artifact (ipcTempFile.log) and explore how it is now disabled by default in AWS

Security teams need multiple tools, such as detection engines, forensics platforms, endpoint protection tools, SIEMs, SOAR solutions, and cloud services to work together seamlessly. The Cado platform is designed with these requirements in mind, integrating effortlessly into your existing security ecosystem to streamline workflows, reduce response times, and elevate your overall security posture.

When an incident occurs, investigators face a daunting set of challenges. Data is often scattered across multiple platforms—AWS, Azure, GCP, on-premises storage, and a host of managed services. Add in ephemeral resources like containers and serverless functions, and the complexity grows exponentially. Pulling together a coherent picture of what happened, when it happened, and who was involved can feel like searching for a needle in a haystack—especially when time is of the essence.

Cloud forensics and incident response have changed significantly as organizations embrace multi-cloud strategies, containerized applications, and faster deployment cycles. In this new environment, security teams need tools that gather evidence swiftly, analyze it intelligently, and put actionable insights directly into the hands of analysts.

SOCs are under constant pressure, facing an overwhelming amount of alerts and data. Security analysts often find themselves swamped by repetitive tasks, unable to dedicate time to high-value activities like investigating critical threats or proactive threat hunting. While fully automated systems are sometimes touted as the solution, they risk sidelining the human expertise necessary for effective cybersecurity and countering more complex threats. An alternative approach is SOC augmentation—empowering analysts with tools that amplify their capabilities without replacing them. The Cado platform is designed precisely to achieve this balance.

Modern Security Operations Centers (SOCs) face a growing list of challenges—two of the most pressing being alert fatigue and the cybersecurity skills shortage. As organizations increasingly rely on cloud-based infrastructure and services, the complexity and sheer scale of the threat landscape have soared. Analysts are inundated with alerts and signals, while SOC managers struggle to hire and retain the talent necessary for effective cloud security. Overcoming these hurdles requires a new approach—one that streamlines workflows, prioritizes the most important threats, and democratizes access to sophisticated cloud investigations. The Cado platform rises to the occasion on all these fronts.

Security Operations Centers (SOCs) play a vital role in defending organizations against constantly evolving security threats. However, the rapidly changing nature of services, technology, and security, along with internal operational pressures, creates unique challenges for modern SOCs. Below are the top five challenges modern SOC teams are facing right now.