The Ephemeral Attack Surface: Securing What Disappears Before You See It:
Cloud-native technologies have transformed how businesses operate. Containers, APIs, microservices, and serverless workloads are spun up and shut down in minutes. This agility accelerates innovation, but it also creates a new challenge for security: most of the modern attack surface is ephemeral. It may only exist for a few hours—sometimes just minutes—before it disappears.
Traditional security approaches, such as annual penetration tests or compliance-driven assessments, were designed for static environments. They provide snapshots in time, but by the time results are delivered, the environment has already changed. Critical exposures can remain unnoticed, while teams waste cycles chasing false positives ...