Cyber: When Cloud Logs Fall Short, The Network Tells The Truth 2026

Cloud migrations often create blind spots, making real-time visibility essential for cyber defense

Network-layer telemetry can overcome cloud log inconsistencies

Following steps for monitoring and operationalizing visibility can improve defense

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“Don’t worry about security, the cloud has you covered!” Cloud migration was often promised with security that would “take care of itself.”

In practice, dynamic infrastructure, overlapping APIs, container sprawl, and multi‑cloud architectures have created new blind spots and attack surfaces for security teams to protect.

As common attacks now also evade EDR tools, defenders are revisiting a familiar lesson: cloud defense, like network defense, requires traffic visibility.

Standardizing cloud-native logs can be complicated because each provider uses different fields and structures.

“Our cloud research team understands how the sheer volume of API calls and the constant addition of new services across cloud providers make log standardization and analysis a real challenge,” says Vince Stoffer, field CTO at Corelight.

This fragmentation underscores the importance of network telemetry—the common denominator that remains consistent across providers and environments.

Source: BleepingComputer