As CISOs, we tend to measure security effectiveness by one thing: whether or not a breach occurred. But by the time an attacker has gained access to a workload or exfiltrated data, the damage is already done. What if you could see the attempts made before the breach—catch the early signals of malicious intent and abuse patterns before they escalate into full-blown incidents?

Sweet Security’s new Attack Attempts view is built on this principle. Because understanding who is targeting your applications, how they’re trying to get in, and where those attempts are hitting before they succeed is the key to staying ahead.

By surfacing both successful and unsuccessful attack attempts, this capability gives security teams a way to answer critical questions:

• Are our defenses actually working?
• Which services are being targeted most?
• What threats are probing the edges of our environment—whether or not they’ve gotten through?

With this information, teams can then determine which IPs to block and how to remediate the issue for recurring attack attempts. 

In a very real way, attack attempts offer a rare opportunity: visibility into what could have gone wrong, and a chance to course-correct before it does.

How It Works: Runtime Observability Meets Application-Layer Intelligence

Attack Attempts is part of Sweet Security’s application-layer runtime visibility—delivered through our ultra-lightweight sensor that captures request-level behavior without impacting performance.

As your cloud workloads run, our platform monitors application-layer traffic in real time. It detects and flags reconnaissance, injections, and suspicious HTTP requests, even if they don’t result in a breach. These are logged as discrete attempts and enriched with full context: source IP, destination service, attack type (e.g., SQL Injection, Command Injection), authentication status, response codes, and more.

Interactive summary widgets provide an at-a-glance view of your attack surface:

• Most targeted services
• Most common attack types
• Top origin IPs
• Authenticated vs unauthenticated attempts

From there, each record can be expanded to reveal evidence-level detail, including full request/response headers and bodies, OWASP/MITRE mappings, and timelines of repeat attempts.

What You Get: A New Frontline for Cloud Threat Detection

Sweet’s Attack Attempts shifts cloud security from being purely reactive to being proactively aware of threat exposure—even when an attacker fails. It offers a new detection layer that helps you:

• Spot early signs of compromise before they escalate
• Validate and stress-test defenses against real-world traffic
• Prioritize services under the most pressure
• Correlate behaviors with runtime context to accelerate triage and threat hunting

Sweet Security’s mission is to protect modern cloud environments at runtime. From workload and container activity to application-layer visibility and lateral movement detection, our platform brings together signals from across the stack to help you detect, respond, and stay ahead.

Attack Attempts is another step forward—because you shouldn't have to wait for a breach to know you're under attack.

Want to see the attack attempts made to your cloud environment? Contact us today!