Cloud Threat Detection in 2026: The Growing Role of SecOps

**Executive summary:** This report explains that as cloud-native workloads become more dynamic and short-lived, effective threat detection must shift from static, pre-deployment controls to continuous runtime visibility and telemetry; without real-time monitoring (including memory capture and process-level signals) investigators often lack the evidence needed to validate alerts and reconstruct attacks, and organizational collaboration and tooling decisions must support SecOps authority and preservation of volatile runtime evidence.