AWS and Cloudanix team co-authored this blog: Real-Time Threat and Anomaly Detection for Workloads on AWS
Threat intelligence · feed-aware CNAPP+

Threat intelligence isn't a feed.
It's a graph correlation.

Anyone can ingest a feed of indicators. The hard part is answering one question: does this IOC match an asset I own, in a way an attacker can actually reach? Cloudanix ingests commercial, open and custom feeds — and correlates every indicator against the live cloud asset graph, identity graph, runtime detections, and current posture. Threat intel becomes context for prioritization, not another noisy alert stream.

✓ Commercial + open + custom feeds ✓ Correlated against the asset graph ✓ Threat-intel-aware UEBA & CDR
threat-intel · live correlation
Indicator stream
198.51.100.42 mandiant
malware.example.com otx
a3f2…b7c4 virustotal
203.0.113.55 abuse.ch
10.247.83.12 custom
cc-c2.example recorded-future
Asset graph correlation
⚠ IOC matched
ioc203.0.113.55
assetec2 i-0a3f… (prod)
roleBackendAppRole
reachs3:prod-pii
verdictCRITICAL · auto-isolated
Other 5 IOCs · no matching asset · suppressed
The signal that mattered is the one tied to an asset that exists, an identity that can act, and data it can reach.
The problem

A TIP without context is just another alert stream.

Most "threat intelligence" platforms stop at feed aggregation — ingest, dedupe, score, push to SIEM. Three things go wrong in practice.

01

Most IOCs don't match anything you own

Threat feeds dump hundreds of thousands of indicators per day. The vast majority will never touch your environment. Without asset correlation, SOCs spend hours on noise.

02

Match ≠ exposure

An IOC matching a dev sandbox EC2 with no public exposure is not the same as one matching a production NLB with PII downstream. Without identity and data-reach context, the prioritization is wrong.

03

Feed sprawl

A typical security program subscribes to 5–15 feeds across commercial, open and ISAC sources. Each comes with its own format, schema, scoring, and overlap. Stitching them is its own ops project.

The reframe

Make threat intel a property of the asset graph.

Instead of "did anyone in our environment touch this indicator?" — ask "show me every asset, identity and workload reachable from an IOC matched in the last hour, ranked by blast radius." That's a graph query, not a feed scroll.

How it works

Three layers, one correlation.

01

Feed ingestion

Commercial feeds — configurable; common integrations include Mandiant, Recorded Future, Anomali, CrowdStrike Intelligence and others. Open feeds — AlienVault OTX, abuse.ch, Spamhaus DROP, CINS, Tor exit lists. Custom feeds — your own IOC lists, ISAC sharing, internal red-team artifacts. All normalized into a single STIX/TAXII-style schema regardless of source format.

02

Graph correlation

Every IOC is checked against the live asset graph. IP indicators match against ENI / load balancer / NAT egress / VPC endpoint IPs. Domain & URL indicators match DNS query logs and HTTP egress. File-hash indicators match container image scans, lambda artifacts, and (where available) workload-side runtime file events. ASN / threat-actor TTPs match against CloudTrail / VPC Flow / network telemetry source ASNs. Matches surface with full graph context — asset, role, blast radius, data-reach.

03

UEBA & CDR enrichment

Matched IOCs feed back into UEBA scoring (an anomaly committed from a threat-flagged ASN scores higher) and into CDR detections (a matched IOC surfaces as an enriched alert with the graph context attached, not a standalone "IOC seen" event). The same matched indicator can also drive automated runbook actions — isolation, credential revocation, IAM key rotation — via the Action Console.

Differentiators

What makes the integration different.

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Correlated against the live graph

Not "did anyone touch this IOC?" — but "show me every reachable asset, identity, and data store impacted, ranked by blast radius."

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Pluggable feed roster

Customer-configurable — bring your existing commercial subscriptions, mix in OSS feeds, layer in ISAC sharing. We don't lock you into one vendor's intel.

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Feeds into UEBA scoring

A match doesn't just create an alert — it raises the risk score for the actor in our UEBA. Subsequent anomalies by the same actor escalate faster.

⚙️

Actionable, not just observable

Matched-IOC detections can drive automated runbooks — isolate the workload, revoke the credential, lock the IAM key — via the Action Console.

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Cross-cloud, single query

IOCs correlated against AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, DigitalOcean — same graph, same query language, same alert.

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Audit-grade history

Every IOC match (and every miss) retained for 90+ days. "Was this IOC ever in our environment? When? On which asset?" answerable in one query.

Being honest

What we are. What we aren't.

What we are

  • A CNAPP+ with first-class threat-intel correlation. Feeds are an input into the asset graph; matches surface as enriched, prioritized detections — not a standalone alert stream.
  • Pluggable on feed sources. Bring whatever commercial intel you already pay for; we layer it with open feeds and your own custom IOC lists.
  • Cross-cloud and identity-aware. One IOC correlated against AWS, Azure, GCP at once, with identity context attached.

What we aren't

  • A standalone Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP). We aren't trying to be Anomali ThreatStream or ThreatConnect — we don't ship a full TIP authoring / sharing / analyst workflow.
  • A first-party intel research team. We don't write our own threat reports the way Mandiant or Recorded Future do. We give you the integration plane, not the analyst desk.
  • A replacement for your ISAC membership. If you're in FS-ISAC, H-ISAC or similar, those memberships remain valuable; we just pipe their feeds in.

What Our Users Are Saying

Customer Reviews

Cloudanix is trusted by security leaders worldwide to deliver proactive, reliable, and cutting-edge cloud security.

One day, I changed the password of a root account, and my CTO called me within less than a minute to confirm if I did so. I was not expecting a reaction this quick. He told me Cloudanix alerted him of this password change and that he wanted to confirm as it was a critical security notification. I couldn't believe it!

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Vishal Madan
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Cloudanix is building for the future of the cloud, which makes the product all the more desirable.

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Ritesh Agarwal
CEO, Airgap Networks

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Pavan Kumar Lekkala
SRE Lead, HugoHub

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Head of Technical Engineering, Finfinity

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Satish Mohan
Satish Mohan
Co-founder & CTO, Airgap Networks

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Managing Partner, Tech Inspira

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Application Architect, iMocha

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Amol Naik
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Head of Security & Infrastructure, HugoHub

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Senior DevSecOps, Meesho

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Satish Mohan
Satish Mohan
CTO, Airgap Networks

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Managing Partner, Tech Inspira

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Sujit Karpe
CTO, iMocha

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CTO, HugoHub

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Staff Security Engineer, Meesho

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Larry Wheat
Staff Solutions Engineer, Eversana
Common questions

Threat intelligence, asked plainly.

Is Cloudanix a Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP)?

No — and we don't try to be. A TIP (Anomali ThreatStream, ThreatConnect, EclecticIQ) is an analyst-facing workflow for ingesting, enriching, scoring and sharing indicators across an organisation. Cloudanix is a CNAPP+ that consumes threat intel as one input into the cloud asset graph. If you already run a TIP, we integrate with it (export from TIP, correlate in Cloudanix). If you don't have a TIP and your threat-intel use case is "correlate feeds against my cloud," Cloudanix typically covers it without a separate TIP purchase.

Which threat feeds does Cloudanix integrate with?

Customer-configurable, designed to be open. Commercial feeds we commonly ingest include Mandiant, Recorded Future, Anomali, CrowdStrike Intelligence and others — bring your existing subscriptions. Open feeds include AlienVault OTX, abuse.ch, Spamhaus DROP/EDROP, CINS, Tor exit lists, Emerging Threats. ISAC feeds are supported via standard STIX/TAXII. Custom feeds (CSV upload, S3-staged IOC lists, internal red-team artifacts) are first-class.

What kinds of indicators does Cloudanix match against?

The standard STIX/TAXII observable types: IPs (matched against ENI / NAT / LB / VPC endpoint IPs and against CloudTrail / VPC Flow source IPs), domains and URLs (matched against DNS query logs and HTTP egress), file hashes (matched against container image scans, lambda artifacts, and workload-side runtime file events where available), and ASNs / threat-actor TTPs (matched against CloudTrail / VPC Flow source ASN context). Matches surface with full graph context — asset, role, blast radius, data-reach — not as standalone IOC events.

How does threat intel relate to UEBA in Cloudanix?

UEBA and threat intel reinforce each other. A behavioral anomaly committed from a source ASN that's on a threat feed scores higher than the same anomaly from a clean ASN. A subsequent anomaly by the same actor escalates faster. Conversely, a UEBA-anomalous user accessing a host that was recently matched against an IOC promotes both the user and the host. The two are correlated, not separate alert streams.

Can matched IOCs trigger automated response actions?

Yes — matched-IOC detections can drive automated runbooks via the Action Console: isolate the workload (revoke security group ingress / egress), revoke the credential (rotate IAM key, expire session), block the destination at the network edge (NACL / WAF / security group), open a ticket with full context. Every action is fully audited and (for sensitive actions) requires approval through the configured workflow.

What about historical investigation — "was this IOC ever in our environment?"

Every IOC match (and every miss) is retained for 90+ days by default (configurable up to one year on enterprise plans). The question "did we ever see indicator X — when, on which assets, what did the actor do next?" is a single graph query.

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