Failure Pattern
SOC investigations teams cannot accurately reconstruct incidents because identity is unreliable. Attackers exploit mistaken attribution to hide movement.
What We See in the Field
Analysts chase logs that implicate the wrong workloads. Compromised systems masquerade as legitimate. SOC investigations take weeks because identity is misaligned.
Underlying Causes
Logs and telemetry tied to unstable metadata
Shared certificates across workloads
Containers inheriting pod identity
Cloud drift confusing attribution
No source-of-truth identity layer
Trust-Native Network Resolution
DTL provides verified session identity for every action. SOC teams see exactly which workload performed which action, enabling fast and accurate investigations.
Broken Trust Assumption
The attacks that exposed this failure pattern were not stealthy break-ins. They were trusted operations.
During incidents such as SolarWinds, Capital One, and Okta, malicious activity was carried out using valid identities and approved execution paths. Certificates were valid. Tokens were accepted. Sessions were authenticated. From the system’s point of view, nothing appeared wrong.
This is the risk of trust inferred from credentials, location, or prior authentication.