From Initial Intrusion to Post-Exploitation, Oligo Incidents Provides the Full Attack Story—Bridging Application Detection & Workload Threat Detection for Best of Breed Cloud Application Detection & Response (CADR).
The Problem: Gaps in Runtime Security
Today’s runtime security solutions focus primarily on workload-level threats, leaving critical gaps at the application layer where attacks frequently originate. Initial intrusions, such as code injection and dependency hijacking, often go undetected, allowing attackers to establish a foothold before traditional defenses kick in.
Most security tools detect symptoms of an attack—unexpected workload behavior, process anomalies, or resource spikes—instead of the actual root cause at the code level. By the time an attack is flagged, it’s already too late to prevent compromise. Security teams are left playing catch-up, mitigating breaches rather than stopping them outright.
The Solution: Oligo Incidents Detection (Powered By Deep Application Inspection)
Oligo is redefining runtime security by delivering a complete attack story from initial intrusion to post-exploitation. Oligo uses Deep Application Inspection (DAI), which sees inside applications, non-intrusively. Deep Application Inspection maps code execution to host activity, making it possible to detect exploits and attacks other solutions miss.
With its enhanced Oligo Incidents, the platform correlates related detection events, giving security teams full attack context to respond proactively. As opposed to isolated alerts, Incidents represent an active campaign detected, providing a graphical representation of applications and assets affected.
Key advancements include:
- Exploit Detection: Oligo profiles languages to detect application-layer exploits, such as code injection. Profiling enables the detection of both known and unknown attacks.
- Expanded Attack Context: Oligo Incidents links security events across the application and workload layers to surface a comprehensive attack chain.
- Incident Response & Forensics: SOC and AppSec teams can reference the full call stack to understand when applications deviated from normal behavior, raising an incident.
How It Works: A Unified Approach to Runtime Security
- Minimal Impact Deployment, Maximum Visibility: unlike other eBPF sensors that introduce significant overhead, Oligo’s lightweight sensor consumes only ~1% CPU and less than 500MB, ensuring robust security without compromising performance.
- Detect Initial Intrusion Attempts at the App Layer: with the ability to monitor how code behaves at the app layer, Oligo detects content injection, supply chain compromise, and other common attack methods.
- Correlate Events for Complete Visibility: Oligo integrates application-layer insights with workload activity, creating a full attack picture. This correlation ensures that security teams can detect not just the symptoms of an attack but the actual techniques used for initial exploitation.
The Benefits: Stopping Exploits Before They Escalate
With Oligo Incidents, organizations gain:
- Runtime Security (not just visibility): Other runtime approaches merely provide visibility into what’s happened after an attacker has gained foothold into your infrastructure. Oligo detects the initial exploit, allowing SOC, Cloud, and Application Security teams to move faster and minimize the impact of exploits.
- Complete Attack Visibility: Security teams can analyze attacks from initial intrusion to post-exploitation in a single, unified platform.
- MITRE ATT&CK Framework Integration: Oligo maps attack activity to industry-standard tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), enabling consistent analysis and response.
The Future of Runtime Security
Traditional runtime security solutions fail to address attacks at their origin. With Oligo’s Deep Application Inspection (DAI) and expanded incident correlation, security teams can see the full attack story and prevent breaches before they happen.
By bridging Application Detection & Response (ADR) with workload threat detection, Oligo is transforming runtime security for modern cloud environments. The result? Stronger protection, deeper insights, and real-time prevention at the application layer.
Want to see how Oligo Incidents can secure your applications before attackers strike? See it in action today.
