Skyhawk Expands Purple Team to Close Gaps in Custom Cloud App Security

Skyhawk Security is expanding its AI-powered Autonomous Purple Team to include custom cloud applications, aiming to close long-standing gaps between application security and infrastructure monitoring. The move comes at a time when attackers are increasingly exploiting vulnerabilities that span multiple layers of cloud environments—highlighted in incidents like the MOVEit Transfer breach and Log4j exploits.

This latest enhancement allows organizations to secure their bespoke cloud apps alongside the infrastructure they run on—without deploying agents. The platform identifies vulnerabilities, simulates attack paths, and prioritizes threats based on real-time risk context. As a result, security operations centers (SOCs) can move from reactive defense to proactive mitigation.

By extending its coverage into the application layer, Skyhawk now offers continuous threat modeling and monitoring across cloud-native environments. It tracks exploit chains that cross from application workloads to cloud infrastructure and back, surfacing business logic flaws and lateral movement risks that traditional tools often miss.

In a landscape where cloud alerts have surged nearly 400% in a year, Skyhawk’s unified approach provides critical context and real-time insights. Its platform not only flags issues but also recommends immediate, context-aware responses—reducing the time it takes to contain threats from days to seconds. With these updates, Skyhawk reinforces its focus on proactive, full-stack cloud security, bridging gaps that have historically hindered incident response.