What Is Cloud Detection and Response and Why Do You Need It?

**Executive summary:** This is a product-focused overview describing the rise of cloud-related security risks and advocating for Cloud Detection and Response (CDR) to provide 24/7 visibility, automated monitoring, custom rules, managed investigations, log retention, and guided remediation for both SaaS and IaaS environments; it emphasizes misconfigurations, policy complexity, sprawling SaaS usage, and a cloud skills gap as primary risk drivers and cites the 2021 Accenture cloud misconfiguration/ransomware incident as an example.