TL;DR
The Aviatrix Threat Research Center summarizes cloud breaches to give security teams free and actionable intelligence.
The TRC leverages both agentic AI and human expertise to provide current, verified, and clear information on the runtime control principles that could have stopped each breach.
When an APT (advanced persistent threat) group, ransomware organization, or other threat actor causes a cloud breach, security teams across the industry need to know what happened so they can respond quickly and update their defenses. Unfortunately, there are multiple sources of information they must draw from – news sources, blogs, reports, and raw intel – with no consistent format. Most sources lack essential information like cloud kill chain mapping, ATT&CK techniques, IOCs, CVEs, or architectural insight.
Worse, most incident reports stop at describing what happened. They fail to show where runtime controls and mitigations—including segmentation, identity governance, egress restrictions, encryption enforcement, and architectural changes—could have blocked attacker progression, limited blast radius, and stopped the breach from continuing. The new Aviatrix Threat Research Center, a complement to the Aviatrix Zero Trust for Workloads product line, provides that comprehensive, standardized source of breach information: what happened, why, and what we can learn from it.
What Is the Aviatrix Threat Research Center?
The Aviatrix Threat Research Center is a free, public cloud threat research platform powered by Agentic AI and human expertise. An automated analysis generates structured breach entries using cloud kill chain mapping, ATT&CK techniques, CVEs/IOCs, compliance exposures, and sector implications. These mappings show the specific security flaws that allowed APT, ransomware, or other advanced threats to pull off a successful attack, helping security teams identify similar flaws in their own networks.
Grounded in shared responsibility and community defense, the TRC makes attacker techniques common knowledge, empowering the security community address widespread vulnerabilities together.
The intelligence from the TRC also informs Aviatrix product planning, improving our ability to address the latest cloud network security challenges for customers.
Who is the Threat Research Center Built For?
The Threat Research Center is designed for:
Cloud Security Architects and Cloud Platform and Infrastructure Directors — TRC calls out common architectural vulnerabilities and runtime gaps, helping cloud security, platform, and infrastructure teams prioritize security-first designs.
Threat Analysts, SOC, and IR teams — TRC brings order to the chaos of a data breach by mapping it to the ATT&CK techniques, CVEs, IOCs, and kill chain progression that security researchers know.
Risk and Compliance Leaders — TRC helps GRC (governance, risk, and compliance) teams understand how compliance standards map to failures in real breaches, empowering them to help their organizations meet updating standards.
CISOs and Security leaders — TRC equips security leaders with clear and concise narratives to present to boardrooms for strategic risk framing.
How can the Aviatrix Threat Research Center Help Security Teams?
The Threat Research Center equips security teams to respond to a cloud breach in the runtime.
Here’s how – the Threat Research Center provides reliable and consistent breach intelligence:
Neutral Architectural Perspective — Explains where principles, not products, would have broken the breach chain.
Compliance-Ready Mapping — Explicit rationale tied to HIPAA 2025, PCI 4.0, NIS2, DORA, NYDFS, ZTMM.
Cross-Breach Pattern Recognition — Makes it easy to identify recurring TTPs and systemic weaknesses.
Cloud Native Focus — Interprets attacks through the lens of modern cloud application infrastructure.
Agentic AI at Scale — Automation ensures TRC keeps pace with the volume and velocity of cloud breaches.
Free, Open, Community-Oriented — Defensible threat research with no paywalls.
What Resources does the Threat Research Center Offer?
Agentic AI Breach Analysis
The Aviatrix Threat Research Center delivers AI-generated breach intelligence by ingesting feeds from verified sources and normalizing fragmented cloud security reporting into a consistent, cloud-native view. It produces structured cloud kill-chain mappings, extracts attacker TTPs by mapping observed behavior to MITRE ATT&CK techniques and sub-techniques, enriches CVEs (common vulnerabilities and exposures), maps regulatory exposures with rationale, and maintains update logs. The research center is designed to expand its indicator coverage over time as its intelligence model evolves.
The value of this AI-driven approach is scale. Cloud breach volume and complexity now exceed what human teams can reasonably analyze on their own. Hundreds of cloud-related breaches, ransomware incidents, and supply-chain compromises emerge each year, with attackers increasingly using automation and AI to accelerate reconnaissance, lateral movement, and exploitation. The Aviatrix Threat Research Center applies AI-driven analysis at scale to ingest, normalize, and compare this data across sources, producing consistent timelines, kill-chain mappings, and behavioral patterns across incidents. These insights allow Aviatrix to understand how advanced threats operate in cloud environments and continuously inform the evolution of Zero Trust for Workloads.
Aviatrix Security Research
Along with current information from verified sources, the Aviatrix Threat Research Center offers expert analysis from the Aviatrix Security Research Team. Team members investigate major campaigns, TTP evolution, multicloud architectural failures, sector-specific patterns, and emerging cloud native attack surfaces.
Key Takeaways
Security is a shared responsibility. Defenders must collaborate even more closely than attackers. The Aviatrix Threat Research Center encourages collaboration by providing a structured schema that shows how a breach played out – helping defenders prevent similar incidents.
Don’t wait for a breach to happen. Explore the Threat Research Center today to discover where you can break the cloud kill chain.
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