Ran a PoC against our existing CrowdStrike + Wazuh stack. Wanted to see if the cloud workload protection was just hype.
It flagged three things the others missed. Not false positives.
* A container escape attempt from a legacy app pod that Wazuh's agent missed due to a dropped syscall.
* A suspicious outbound DNS tunneling pattern from a dev instance that CrowdStrike's network module didn't correlate.
* An IAM credential exfiltration attempt via a misconfigured S3 bucket policy that our CSPM tool logged but didn't alert on.
The detection came from their Workload Security runtime stuff. The console is a mess, but the underlying engine is watching different signals. Integration is painful. Their API for pulling alerts into our SIEM is clunky.
```json
{
"alert": {
"event": "container_escape_attempt",
"source": "trendmicro://host/container/abc123",
"detail": "unshare syscall with CLONE_NEWUSER flag from containerized process"
}
}
```
The main problem? Cost. It's expensive for what it does. You're paying for the umbrella brand. For the three detections, I'm not convinced it's worth the operational overhead of another agent and another pane of glass. Could probably tune the existing tools to catch two of these. The third one is valid, but is it a $15k/year problem? Doubt it.
Don't panic, have a rollback plan.