How to detect security threats in Linux processes

In Linux systems, monitoring processes is crucial to detecting potential security threats, such as the creation of unexpected web shells or other malicious utilities. Understanding the process tree can help identify security threats and determine the scope of a breach. Key information includes environment variables, command-line arguments, and metadata that can reveal sensitive data or activity data used by attackers. Datadog Cloud Workload Security can help monitor processes across an entire environment to surface security threats in real-time, with out-of-the-box workload threat detection rules and custom rule writing capabilities.