Essential Data Sources for Detection Beyond the Endpoint

The 2026 Unit 42 Global Incident Response Report warns that adversaries are accelerating from initial compromise to data exfiltration and increasingly exploit gaps created by endpoint-centric defenses. It outlines three common scenarios—cloud-to-endpoint pivots, covert C2 and identity theft, and rogue assets/shadow IT—that evade EDR-only monitoring, and recommends a unified, AI-driven SOC that ingests telemetry across all IT zones to stitch alerts, prioritize incidents, and reduce blind spots.