TL;DR
Aviatrix Breach Lock contains active breaches by preventing data exfiltration.
Aviatrix Breach Lock complements the Zero Trust for Workloads product line by offering runtime enforcement for cloud workloads.
When you detect a data breach, every second matters. When APTs (advanced persistent threat groups), ransomware, or other threat actors infiltrate your network through stolen credentials, social engineering, a zero-day vulnerability, or an unprotected workload, they can begin data exfiltration in minutes. That stolen data puts your customers, intellectual property, compliance posture, and reputation at risk.
Security teams are challenged with critical obstacles in stopping data exfiltration:
Cloud architectures are not designed to show where data exfiltration is happening. NAT gateways hide true source workloads, flow logs and DNS logs are delayed and difficult to interpret, and cloud consoles do not connect these signals.
Traditional cloud security tools can detect compromise, but they can’t stop it. CNAPPs show misconfigurations, EDR protects endpoints, SIEM/SOAR correlates alerts, Perimeter Edge Security and SASE Providers protect the perimeter, and IR firms investigate after the fact – but none of these tools actually prevent the data theft.
Compliance frameworks demand clarity, but that clarity is almost impossible to deliver during a breach. HIPAA 2025, PCI DSS 4.0, NIS2, DORA, and SEC rules expect organizations to quickly determine what data was stolen, which workloads were compromised, and what containment steps were taken. This information is difficult to gather and verify quickly, in the middle of a crisis.
During an active breach, teams often cannot answer: “Which workload is sending data out right now — and where is it going?”
Aviatrix’s newest addition to its Zero Trust for Workloads strategy, the Breach Lock program, addresses a critical gap left by traditional cloud security tools: active breach containment.
What is the Aviatrix Breach Lock Program?
The Aviatrix Breach Lock Program is a free rapid response program that empowers cloud security teams to stop data exfiltration during active breaches. Breach Lock protects organizations from APTs, ransomware, and other groups who try to deliver malware or steal data.
The program has two stages:
Detecting exfiltration – The program analyzes outbound network traffic to identify malicious, foreign, and non-compliant destinations that indicate data exfiltration. The program watches for behaviors consistent with MITRE ATT&CK Exfiltration (TA0010) such as suspicious external transfer, C2-driven egress, and unencrypted outbound communication.
Stopping the exfiltration – Where enforcement is available, Breach Lock applies targeted, cloud-native egress controls to contain active exfiltration paths. Even where enforcement is limited, organizations receive clarity and prioritized containment guidance.
Breach Lock requires no agents and does not disrupt running workloads, allowing containment actions to be applied without downtime.
Each engagement includes:
A Breach Containment Review, providing rapid insight into outbound exposure, segmentation contributors, encryption gaps, and compliance alignment.
30 days of free Zero Trust for Workloads, delivering continuous monitoring, sustained enforcement, and compliance-ready reporting throughout recovery.
Breach Lock provides clarity, immediate control, and emergency containment — giving security teams the time to fully investigate the breach and update security measures if necessary.
How does Aviatrix Breach Lock Work?
Here’s how the program works:
1. Ingesting Telemetry
Aviatrix Breach Lock ingests cloud flow logs and DNS logs and enriches them with threat intelligence, geo data, and domain scoring. It does not require agents, sensors, or downtime.
2. Detecting Outbound Behavior
Breach Lock identifies suspicious destinations:
Malicious IPs, TOR nodes, C2 patterns
Foreign / out-of-jurisdiction egress
Suspicious SaaS/API destinations
DNS beaconing
Unencrypted outbound communication
Behaviors aligned to MITRE ATT&CK Exfiltration (TA0010) including exfiltration over web services, C2 channels, or cloud storage
3. Providing a Breach Containment Review
Aviatrix Breach Lock delivers a structured assessment that identifies active or likely data exfiltration paths, outbound exposure, and encryption gaps. The review empowers you to turn intelligence into action by recommending prioritized containment steps and offering guidance where enforcement is limited.
4. Recommending Containment Actions (Where Enforcement Is Possible)
The program recommends methods for data containment:
Block malicious or foreign destinations
Restrict outbound Internet access
Apply containment-mode egress policies
Enforce outbound encryption
Outlining a Path to Sustained Enforcement
All findings transition directly into Aviatrix Zero Trust for Workloads, free for 30 days, which enables continuous egress monitoring, runtime enforcement, policy validation, and audit-ready, regulator-ready reporting. How Do I Know I Need Aviatrix Breach Lock? Breach Lock can help you if you answer “yes” to any of the following questions:
Have you confirmed whether any workloads are sending data to foreign, unknown, or suspicious destinations?
Can you identify the specific workload behind each outbound connection?
Do you have the ability to block malicious or foreign destinations across accounts/regions?
Do you have runtime evidence required for regulatory disclosure (SEC, HIPAA, PCI, NIS2)?
Do you need temporary outbound enforcement during investigation and recovery?
Has your IR team confirmed whether data is actively leaving the environment?
Despite the best precautions, data breaches can happen. Use Aviatrix Breach Lock to take the teeth out of any breach and jump-start your zero trust maturity journey.
Schedule a demo to see Breach Lock in action.
Use the Aviatrix Workload Attack Path Assessment to find the unprotected paths in your network that an attacker could exploit.
Frequently Asked Questions
It's a set of controls that detect and block sensitive data from leaving your environment through AI tools — think LLMs, coding copilots, or AI-connected SaaS apps.
Employees regularly paste source code, customer data, or credentials into public AI chatbots. Attackers also abuse AI APIs as covert exfiltration channels. AI data exfiltration protection monitors outbound traffic to those endpoints and enforces policies before data leaves.
Aviatrix Breach Lock is built for exactly this — it ingests flow logs and DNS logs, spots suspicious AI/SaaS destinations, and applies cloud-native egress controls without agents or downtime.
Data exfiltration is the unauthorized transfer of your data to an attacker-controlled destination. It's the moment stolen data actually leaves your control — and the hardest stage of a breach to stop.
In cloud environments, it's especially dangerous. NAT gateways hide the true source workload, flow logs are delayed, and cloud consoles don't connect the signals. Security teams often can't answer the basic question during an active breach:
"Which workload is sending data out right now — and where is it going?"
That's the gap Aviatrix Breach Lock was built to close.
- Employees submitting sensitive data (code, PII, financials) to public LLMs
- Attackers using AI APIs as covert C2 channels
- Shadow AI tools with no enterprise data governance
- AI-integrated SaaS apps becoming exfiltration vectors
- Unencrypted outbound communication to AI endpoints
The Aviatrix Threat Research Center tracks active campaigns that exploit these vectors.
- Define an AI Acceptable Use Policy — which tools are approved, what data can be used with them.
- Apply egress controls — block unapproved AI services at the cloud network layer.
- Monitor outbound traffic — enrich flow logs and DNS logs with threat intelligence.
- Enforce Zero Trust for Workloads — workloads should only reach explicitly authorized destinations. Learn more.
- Run an attack path assessment — find unprotected paths before attackers do. Start here.
Already seeing suspicious activity? The Aviatrix Breach Lock program is a free rapid-response engagement — no agents, no downtime.
Watch for these signals:
- Outbound traffic spikes to unknown or foreign destinations
- Connections to TOR nodes, known malicious IPs, or newly registered domains
- DNS beaconing — high-frequency queries to unusual domains
- Workloads initiating connections they've never made before
- Large transfers from non-production systems or during off-hours
- Missing runtime evidence for SEC, HIPAA, or PCI disclosure
Most teams can't correlate these signals fast enough because cloud architectures weren't designed for it. Breach Lock does that correlation automatically and tells you which workload is responsible.
Contain first, investigate second.
Minutes matter. Here's the response sequence:
- Isolate — block egress from the compromised workloads.
- Block destinations — restrict outbound access to identified malicious IPs/domains.
- Preserve telemetry — lock down flow logs, DNS logs, and forensic artifacts for regulatory disclosure.
- Investigate blast radius — which workloads were hit, what data was accessible, what moved.
- Comply — meet HIPAA 2025, PCI DSS 4.0, NIS2, DORA, and SEC disclosure timelines.
Aviatrix Breach Lock handles containment and includes 30 days of free Zero Trust for Workloads for monitoring and audit-ready reporting through recovery.
Data exfiltration = deliberate theft by an adversary.
Data leakage = accidental exposure from misconfiguration or human error.
CNAPPs and CSPM tools are designed for leakage — they find misconfigured S3 buckets and overly permissive policies. But they can't stop active exfiltration. They detect the conditions that enable it, not the act itself.
Aviatrix Breach Lock fills that gap with runtime enforcement — blocking the exfiltration while it's happening.
A data breach is any unauthorized access to sensitive data — it may or may not involve data leaving your environment.
Data exfiltration is the act of data actually leaving — the theft stage inside a breach.
Not every breach leads to exfiltration. But once an attacker achieves initial access, exfiltration can begin in minutes. Closing that window is what Aviatrix Breach Lock does — immediate egress enforcement through the Zero Trust for Workloads layer.
- C2-driven egress — malware sends stolen data over HTTPS to attacker infrastructure.
- DNS tunneling — data encoded inside DNS queries, rarely blocked or inspected.
- Cloud storage abuse — data uploaded to S3, Google Drive, or Dropbox via legitimate APIs.
- Living-off-the-land — attackers use native cloud CLIs (AWS CLI, gsutil) to avoid detection.
- Low-and-slow transfers — small volumes over long periods to stay under detection thresholds.
- AI API abuse — sensitive data submitted to external LLMs as a covert channel.
Breach Lock detects all of these by analyzing outbound behavior against expected communication patterns. Visit the Threat Research Center for current threat intelligence.
