Inside the Modern SOC: Defending the Cross-Environment Pivot
Unit 42 reports 43% of investigated attacks span four or more attack surfaces, urging SOCs to use AI-driven cross-domain correlation to reconstruct attack paths.
A Unit 42 blog series entry describes how adversaries pivot across cloud, endpoint, network, identity, and SaaS environments after initial foothold, exploiting visibility gaps between disconnected security tools. The 2026 Unit 42 Global Incident Response Report found 43% of attacks involved activity across four or more attack surfaces, some spanning eight. The article recommends AI-driven correlation, cross-domain evidence connection, and continuous SOC engineering, promoting Palo Alto's Cortex SecOps platform and Unit 42 Managed Services.
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