Visibility Through the Clouds with Network Flow Logs

Organizations, including the U.S. military, are increasingly adopting cloud deployments for their flexibility and cost savings. The shared security model utilized by cloud service providers removes some of the adopting organization's responsibility for system administration and security. But it leaves them on the hook for monitoring hosted applications and resources. Cloud flow logs are a valuable source of data for supporting these security responsibilities and attaining situational awareness. The SEI has a long history of supporting flow log collection and analysis, including tools for collection in Azure and AWS. In this podcast from the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute (SEI), two leading researchers in this area, principal researcher Tim Shimeall and security data analyst Ikem Okafo, both with the SEI's CERT Division, sit down with Dan Ruef, technical manager of the CERT Division's Network Situational Awareness Group, to discuss how to enhance security with cloud flow analysis as well as available tools and resources.

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Visibility Through the Clouds with Network Flow Logs is an episode from Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Podcast Series by Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute.

This episode is 35:59 long.

This episode was published on Jan 15, 2026.

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