Aviatrix Blog 
CNN recently reported that a cybercriminal group known as Scattered Spider has successfully targeted multiple U.S. retailers using sophisticated phishing and social engineering attacks. The methods are advanced, the damage is real, and the bigger story is this—every business in the cloud is now in the blast radius.
These aren’t opportunistic hackers testing passwords in their basement. These are patient, well-resourced adversaries exploiting cracks in identity systems, lateral movement pathways, and outdated assumptions about the perimeter.
And that’s exactly why Aviatrix exists.
The Perimeter Isn’t Dead. It’s Just Distributed.
Cloud-native environments don’t break the perimeter—they multiply it. Every container, VPC, subnet, and peered connection becomes a new edge. And traditional security tools, built to inspect traffic at a centralized chokepoint, simply can’t keep up.(BleepingComputer)
That’s why we built the Aviatrix Cloud Native Security Fabric (CNSF)—to redefine cloud network security for this new distributed reality.
Embedded, Distributed, and Built for Speed
Our approach isn’t about retrofitting yesterday’s firewalls into cloud architecture. CNSF is a cloud-native framework that moves security controls directly into the natural path of the network, where traffic is already flowing.
No hairpinning. No vendor lock-in. No tradeoffs between speed and security.(Aviatrix)
What does that look like?
- Embedded Data Plane Enforcement: Every node in the network becomes a security control point, stopping threats early—especially critical in the face of social engineering-driven intrusions like Scattered Spider.
- Dynamic Policy Enforcement: CNSF recognizes the ephemeral nature of cloud-native apps—scaling up or down in real time—and adapts security policies to match that pace.
- End-to-End Visibility: You can’t stop what you can’t see. CNSF gives you deep, actionable insights into east-west and egress traffic across multi-cloud environments.
Real Cloud Firewalls. Not Pretend Ones.
Let’s be blunt: many so-called “cloud firewalls” are just virtual appliances running in the cloud. They weren’t built for the elastic, dynamic nature of Kubernetes, microservices, or multi-cloud.
CNSF offers a distributed cloud firewall purpose-built to inspect traffic where it matters, without relying on packet mirroring, log shipping, or backhauling traffic to a centralized point.
This is how you stop lateral movement before it becomes lateral explosion.
The Scattered Spider Lesson: Security Must Move at Cloud Speed
The Scattered Spider breach is a case study in how fast attackers move—and how slow legacy defenses respond. Identity systems get compromised. One user’s credentials get phished. And suddenly, a foot in the door becomes a sprint across your infrastructure.(Dark Reading)
CNSF doesn’t wait to respond. It assumes breach. It segments. It inspects. It adapts.
And most importantly, it moves with your business—not behind it.
If your infrastructure has outgrown your security architecture, you’re not alone. But you don’t have to stay exposed. Aviatrix is ready to help you reimagine the perimeter—and take back control of your cloud environment.
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