The Need For Runtime ADR: If Your App Is a Black Box, Your Security Strategy Is Too

Verizon’s DBIR 2025 just dropped a bombshell:

" Exploitation of vulnerabilities has overtaken phishing as the
‍#1 initial access vector. "

״ Servers are now the most targeted asset, appearing in 95% of breaches.״

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This isn’t a trend. It’s a paradigm shift. The attackers aren’t coming through email links anymore, they’re slipping through cracks in your code and your open-source libraries. Right into your servers.

And yet… we’re still flying blind inside the application.

The Runtime Security Lie

Let’s talk about what most security vendors call “runtime protection.”

Whether it’s SentinelOne, CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, Wiz, Orca, you name it, they all boast runtime security.

But here’s the uncomfortable truth:

They only see 1% of what actually happens.

Traditional Runtime 1% Visibility

These tools monitor syscalls and low-level process behavior. That’s it.

They’re completely blind to what happens inside Java, Node.js, Python, or Go.

They don’t see the vulnerable function. They don’t see your application logic. They don’t see the exploit unfold.

And yet… they call themselves Cloud Native Application Protection platforms?

How can you protect the application if you can’t even see it?

Runtime Theater vs. Runtime Reality

The truth is: legacy CNAPPs are great at infrastructure telemetry.

But attackers have already moved up the stack. They exploit logic buried deep in your application layer, inside complex runtime environments that these tools cannot inspect.

So by the time traditional tools raise an alert, it’s already too late.

The blast radius has started. Lateral movement is underway. Data may be gone.

Raven ADR Changes the Game

That’s why we built Raven Runtime ADR:

To see everything, from kernel to user space, all the way through your libraries, your app servers, and your business logic.

 Runtime ADR Full Raw Call Stack

Raven traces every function call, from the actual vulnerable library to the exact syscall it generated.

That means Raven can stop attacks. Not react. Not guess. Stop.

Real Exploits. Real Visibility.

Take Log4Shell. Raven shows the entire attack path in real-time:

• The vulnerable Log4j method
  
• Your servlet processing the tainted input
  
• The application container executing it
  
• The final execv syscall to fetch the payload
  
  

This is true runtime security.

Not EDR with a facelift. Not side-scanning metadata.

Actual execution. Real call stacks. Root-cause visibility.

What You Miss vs. What We See

You Can’t Protect What You Can’t See

This isn’t optional anymore.
Attackers are in your application runtime.
Are you?
If your security still ends at the kernel, you’re too late.
If your runtime protection can’t see the application, you don’t have protection at all.
Raven Runtime ADR sees what others can’t.
Stop runtime exploits—before they execute.