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title: Cloud Detection and Response (CDR) Technical Buyers' Guide
description: Download the Cloud Detection and Response (CDR) Technical Buyers' Guide to learn key criteria for detecting and responding to cloud attacks.
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#### Whitepaper

# Cloud Detection and Response (CDR) Technical Buyers' Guide

## Download

When it comes to cloud security, new zero days like the [XZ Backdoor](https://rad.security/blog/xz-backdoor) continue to appear, putting detection and response front and center.

In this technical buyer’s guide, we will provide a well-researched perspective, as well as a technical, practitioner-focused point of view, that is meant to serve as starting criteria, given the emerging threat landscape. 

 The technical guide covers: 

- Defining CDR category - what's in, what's out, and why, looking at what the attacks tell us, what is actually running in the cloud, and what should remain a separate but complementary function
- The 'must-haves' for CDR, including real-time posture, behavioral detection and context from identities and infrastructure
- Technical RFP criteria for each of the CDR must-haves that cut across well-known categories like KSPM, CSPM, Runtime Security and Software Supply Chain Security

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