How to Supercharge Your Investigations with Cado

In today’s fast-paced digital world, security teams face an increasing volume of cyber threats. To keep up, organizations need an incident response solution that accelerates investigations, streamlines workflows, and delivers deep forensic insights. The Cado platform is designed to do just that—empowering security teams with cutting-edge capabilities that transform how they investigate incidents. Here’s how Cado can supercharge your investigations:

Collect

Automated Data Collection: Eliminating Bottlenecks

Creating a Rule to automatically collect data on a Guard Duty detection

Cado simplifies forensic data acquisition across cloud, container, serverless, and hybrid environments. Its automated data collection capabilities mean you can seamlessly gather relevant evidence without manual intervention, ensuring investigations start with the right data in hand. The platform now supports additional integrations for automated data collection, allowing security teams to acquire forensic evidence even from ephemeral cloud environments with minimal effort.

Flexible Data Acquisition: Full Disk and Triage Options

Configuring a disk acquisition 

Security teams need flexibility in how they collect forensic evidence. Cado supports full disk imaging and triage acquisition across various resource types, allowing analysts to tailor data collection strategies to each investigation’s unique needs. The platform now offers additional acquisition options for specific cloud storage solutions, making it easier to capture forensic data across distributed environments.

Volatile Data Collection with Varc

Cado varc, an open-source Volatile Artifact Collector tool, allows security teams to capture critical forensic evidence at the moment of malicious activity. This ensures investigators don’t miss key artifacts that could be lost when systems reboot or attackers attempt to cover their tracks. Recent updates to Cado varc include extended support for additional volatile data types, making forensic evidence collection even more comprehensive.

Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Investigations Made Easy

With support for AWS EC2, AWS Lambda, Azure, GCP, and even distroless container environments, Cado simplifies investigations across multi-cloud environments. Whether an incident originates in a traditional VM or a modern serverless function, Cado provides the forensic visibility needed to respond effectively. The latest enhancements allow security teams to pivot across different cloud providers seamlessly, making it easier to correlate data from hybrid environments.

Process

Data Export and Integration: Seamless Workflows

Exporting to an s3 bucket with the Cado Platform

Forensic investigations don’t happen in a vacuum—security teams rely on multiple tools. Cado enables seamless data export to SIEM platforms, making it easy to correlate forensic evidence with broader security events. The platform also integrates with SOAR systems like Cortex XSOAR, enabling automated workflows that accelerate response times. Additionally, Cado now provides webhook support for real-time notifications, allowing security teams to stay informed and take immediate action on critical findings.

Cloud-Native Architecture: Investigate Faster

Cado is designed to run natively within AWS, GovCloud, Azure, and GCP. This cloud-native deployment ensures organizations meet strict data privacy requirements while avoiding the costly and time-consuming process of transferring forensic data out of their environment. This means faster investigations without unnecessary expenses. Recently, Cado enhanced its cloud-native features to support multi-region analysis, ensuring forensic data remains within compliance boundaries while enabling faster investigation times.

Analyze 

Advanced Analytics and Threat Intelligence

Security teams need more than just raw data—they need actionable insights. Cado enriches collected data with third-party and proprietary threat intelligence, automatically surfacing key incident details. Analysts can quickly identify root causes, compromised assets, and attack timelines, reducing the time spent manually piecing together events. The latest updates include deeper integrations with threat intelligence feeds, ensuring up-to-date threat indicators are available within investigations.

Deep Integration with Security Tools

Cado enhances investigations by integrating with other security tools, including:

• AWS GuardDuty for automated response to detected threats.
• Microsoft Defender for streamlined incident triage.
• CrowdStrike for deeper forensic insights alongside endpoint detection.
• SophosLabs Intelix for dynamic malware sandboxing.

These integrations extend Cado’s capabilities, allowing security teams to enhance their workflows with best-in-class tools. The recent introduction of additional API integrations makes it easier to connect Cado to custom security workflows, further improving investigation efficiency.

Automated Investigations: Scaling Security Operations

Cado automates many of the menial investigative techniques used by human analysts, allowing security teams to focus on complex threats while routine investigations run automatically. This automation increases efficiency and ensures consistency across all investigations. Recent enhancements have introduced additional automated workflows for common cloud-based attack scenarios, reducing response times significantly.

Enhanced Timeline Navigation

Cado’s intuitive timeline feature enables analysts to pivot off key artifacts quickly, making it easier to reconstruct attack sequences and identify the most relevant forensic evidence. This streamlined navigation accelerates investigations and improves accuracy. The latest version of the timeline feature includes advanced filtering and correlation options, allowing analysts to pinpoint key events with greater efficiency.

Supercharge Your Investigations Today

By leveraging these powerful features, security teams can dramatically improve the speed, efficiency, and depth of their forensic investigations. Ready to see Cado in action? Request a demo or try the free Community Edition today.