Your cloud has a normal too. Most tools only check its paperwork.
Posture scanning tells you a bucket is public. It does not tell you that a service account which has read fourteen objects a day for a year just read nine thousand. NetworkFort extends the behavioural baseline into cloud so both questions get answered.
Configuration is only half the risk.
Cloud estates fail through legitimate credentials doing illegitimate volumes, and through drift nobody reviewed.
Configuration drift
Every change to a security-relevant setting, dated, attributed and scored against intent.
Identity behaviour
Service accounts and roles carry baselines the same way hosts do.
Egress volume
Outbound data patterns per workload, so exfiltration looks different from a busy day.
Cross-account paths
Trust relationships mapped as they are actually used, not as they were documented.
The cloud is not a separate security programme.
A lateral move from an on-prem host into a cloud workload is one event. Two tools with two consoles will see two halves.
- Shared baselineOn-prem, cloud and endpoint activity are scored by the same model, so hybrid paths stay intact.
- Provider-native collectionFlow logs, audit trails and control-plane events, read through native APIs.
- No agents in workloadsNothing to install into containers or functions, so nothing to maintain at scale.
Read-only first, always.
Nothing gains write access to your cloud until you have seen what read-only surfaces.
Connect read-only
A scoped role per account. Flow logs and audit trails start streaming.
Baseline workloads
Each workload and identity accumulates its own behavioural record.
Score drift
Configuration and behaviour are scored together, because separately they mislead.
Extend authority
Containment permissions are granted per account, only if and when you want them.
What is read where.
Per-provider collection, in plain terms.
| Source | AWS | Azure | GCP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flow / network logs | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Control-plane audit | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Identity & role activity | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Storage access patterns | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Managed Kubernetes | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| SaaS admin events | Selected | Selected | Selected |
What teams ask before they switch.
Straight answers, including the ones that make a sale harder.
Is this a CSPM tool?
What permissions do you need?
Does it cover SaaS?
How is cost affected?
Point it at one account and see.
A single read-only connection is enough to show you what behavioural baselining adds to posture scanning.