Defending the battlefield: Stateful detections for an agentic threat landscape

Sysdig argues that rapidly automated and AI-assisted cloud attacks, including exploits occurring shortly after vulnerability disclosures and agentic ransomware campaigns, are increasing the need for effective runtime security. It presents stateful detections as a way to reduce alert noise by correlating multiple related actions, such as opening a container shell, downloading a binary, and executing it, rather than treating each event independently. Using Falco observations and links between processes or sessions, these detections can identify multi-stage behaviors with greater context and provide analysts with higher-confidence alerts. Sysdig’s 2026 usage report states that 70% of organizations use stateful detections across 91% of their cloud environments, while although 75% have configured automated response policies, only 27% have enabled them, reflecting concerns about operational disruption. The company contends that more reliable detection signals could increase trust in automation, citing growth in organizations that terminate suspicious processes or containers after alerts.

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