--- title: "Lateral Movement" id: "39975" type: "page" slug: "lateralmovement" published_at: "2023-10-11T06:51:13+00:00" modified_at: "2026-03-05T09:50:13+00:00" url: "https://stellarcyber.ai/uc/lateralmovement/" markdown_url: "https://stellarcyber.ai/uc/lateralmovement.md" excerpt: "Lateral Movement Find and stop attackers roaming around your network. Download Datasheet Why Identifying Lateral Movement is Challenging Lack of Visibility While good products are on the market focused on specific aspects of your environment, they lack the situational awareness..." --- ## Lateral Movement Find and stop attackers roaming around your network. [Download Datasheet](https://d6i9zfdwymowh.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/10-23_Data-Sheet_Technology-at-a-Glance_V4-9.pdf) ## Why Identifying Lateral Movement is Challenging ### Lack of Visibility While good products are on the market focused on specific aspects of your environment, they lack the situational awareness you need to see attackers as they move from one asset to another. ### Time Delays Attackers are patient. Once they penetrate your environment, they are keen to wait for days, weeks, or even months before taking their next step, hoping the security in place will not detect their movement... Read More continuous analysis of network activity, security teams will eventually deal with an active attack rather than stop it from occurring. ### Unreliable Automation Even if a security team can identify an attacker traversing the network without reliable response automation, they will take manual response actions, giving attackers time to attempt to evade eradication. ## How to Detect and Defeat Latera Movement A multi-layer security approach gives your team the best chance to detect and eradicate attackers moving laterally across your network. ### Endpoint Protection Attackers typically target endpoints as their point of entry so your security team must monitor and capture critical data from all endpoints for analysis. ### Next-Gen Firewall An indicator that an attacker is moving freely across your network can come from a Next-Gen firewall capable of identifying connections from the network to suspicious external IP addresses. Read More When analyzed in context, that data can be essential to identify lateral movement. ### Network Protection To traverse your environment, attackers will be moving across your network, thus, reliable network protection, such as an NDR solution, must be included in your security stack. ### Vulnerability Management When an attacker moves laterally across your network, they look for exploitable weaknesses in your assets and application stack. Vulnerability management tools give you the visibility to keep your machines and apps patched appropriately. ### Security Analytics Security Analytics allows you to detect potential signs of attacher lateral movement when actively monitoring and correlating user and entity behaviors and flagging suspicious activities. ### Automated Response With the previous protection layers in place, you need a way to respond to a detected threat at scale quickly. An automated response product like SOAR can be the difference between thwarting an attacker early and a wide-scale breach. [Product Tour](https://stellarcyber.ai/platform/) [Open XDR Platform](https://d6i9zfdwymowh.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/05-26_OpenXDR-Datasheet.pdf) ## How Stellar Cyber Can Help Stellar Cyber delivers over 400 integrations out-of-the-box, including integrations to every primary public cloud provider, such as AWS, Microsft Azure, Google Compute, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). With integrations to popular CSPMs, choosing which of these products to use is up to you. You maintain control. Stellar Cyber also provides network protection, security analytics, and automated response capabilities to deliver your multi-cloud security. [Request a Demo](https://stellarcyber.ai/request-a-demo/) ## Key Features ### Ultra-Flexible Data Sources ### Ultra-Flexible Data Sources Using pre-built integrations, incorporate data from an existing security control, IT, and productivity tool. ### Normalize and Enrich Data ### Normalize and Enrich Data Automatically normalize and enrich data with context, enabling comprehensive, scalable data analysis. ### Automated Threat Hunting ### Automated Threat Hunting Create customized threat hunts that can be run ad-hoc or on a set schedule. ### Advanced Threat Detection ### Advanced Threat Detection Identify complex threats using AI threat models and curated threat detection rules. ### AI-Driven Security Analytics ### AI-Driven Security Analytics Combining seemingly disparate alerts into incidents provides security analysts with contextualized and prioritized threats to investigate. ### Repeatable Incident Response ### Repeatable Incident Response Take decisive response actions manually or enable Stellar Cyber to automate response fully. [Understand the Tech](https://stellarcyber.ai/platform/) [Here from Our Customers](https://stellarcyber.ai/company/customer-testimonials/) ## Meet Your Lateral Movement Challenge with Stellar Cyber ## Stop Chasing Alerts Investigate incidents, not alerts See significant efficiency gains ## Improve Security Outcomes Find hidden threats early and stop constant firefighting. ## Save Time and Money Optimize security stack Improve team productivity ## It’s Your Turn to ## See. Know. Act. Stellar Cyber unifies your stack, automates response, and connects you with trusted partners—giving you clarity, control, and measurable results. [Request a Demo](https://stellarcyber.ai/request-a-demo/) [Explore the Platform](https://stellarcyber.ai/platform/)