My main use case of Skyhawk Security is cutting through the massive volume of alerts I deal with daily in my SOC operation. I primarily use it to validate which cloud vulnerabilities are actually exploited and weaponized before attackers can exploit them, so I can focus on real threats instead of chasing thousands of false positives from our Microsoft Sentinel and Defender alerts. The automation of purple team features lets me simulate real attacks against our cloud environment without touching production, which helps me prioritize remediation based on actual business risk rather than just CVSS score. This especially helped me when I was handling 10 to 15 tickets daily and I needed to quickly identify which ones were genuinely weaponized and which threats could impact our critical cloud assets. Basically, I use it to trust but verify our security alerts, making sure I'm spending my time on incidents that actually matter instead of chasing noise.

Skyhawk Security helps me cut through false positives primarily through its machine learning based on behavior analysis that creates a personalized model for our specific cloud environment, applications, and users. Alerts only fire when something is actually abnormal and not just triggered on every minor abnormality. The key feature that makes this easier is how it aggregates multiple suspicious events into what they call malicious behavior indicators, then correlates those activities and attack sequences before raising an alert.

What really stands out about Skyhawk Security compared to other solutions I have used is its focus on weaponized attacks and exploit verification rather than just finding vulnerabilities and misconfigurations. Most tools such as Wiz or other CSPM platforms will tell you about thousands of CVSS security issues, but Skyhawk validates which vulnerabilities are actually weaponized and which real attacks can be explained in the specific environment context. Another unique aspect is how it integrates with AI to fight AI-driven attacks, which is becoming increasingly important as attackers now use AI to automate their attacks. The explainability built into every alert means I not only know what happened, but why it is a threat and how the attack unfolded, making my investigation work much faster compared to other solutions where I had to manually piece together attack timelines. This allows me to focus on genuine critical threats by filtering out noise and gives me the confidence that I am prioritizing based on actual exploits rather than just theoretical vulnerability vectors.

The best features in Skyhawk Security that I find most valuable include the AI-powered automation of purple team simulations that create a digital twin of our cloud environment. I use the automation of the purple team the most because it continuously runs attack simulations against our actual cloud setup without impacting production, validating whether vulnerabilities are truly exploited or weaponized before attackers exploit them. In my daily activities, the real observability in real-time provides evidence in one place for many unfolding threats. Additionally, the risk scoring system alerts me based on exploitability and is superb since it completes in minutes without requiring additional agents across our cloud workloads. It saves time and reduces complexity. Overall, the combination of continuous proactive protection through attack simulation and real-time threat detection with full context is what makes Skyhawk Security stand out compared to other tools I have used.

The digital twin makes my day-to-day tasks significantly easier and helps me spot vulnerabilities faster by giving me a completely virtual replica of our cloud environment where I can test attack scenarios safely without touching production. What makes it so valuable is that it continuously simulates how an attacker would move through our actual cloud infrastructure, allowing me to instantly tell the difference between critical vulnerabilities and low-risk issues in production versus development. This allows me to prioritize remediation based on actual business impacts rather than just CVSS scores.

Skyhawk Security is pretty solid overall, but there are a few things I wish were better. One thing would be more native integration with Microsoft security tools such as Sentinel and Defender, since those are what we use daily. Having deeper built-in integration instead of relying on generic SIM connections would save time.

The training and documentation could also be more comprehensive, with more real-world use case examples specific to different industries. Additionally, having more general customization for the AI models to adjust what gets flagged as anomalous in our specific environment would help reduce alert noise. These are pretty minor improvements, and most of them are probably already in their roadmap based on their recent updates adding self-AI training and bulk status changes for their customers.

I believe a mobile app would benefit SOC analysts who need to respond frequently while on the go, as most of the platform feels focused on desktop use. Having a robust mobile experience for approving automated responses and reviewing critical alerts would be really useful.

I have been using Skyhawk Security for almost six to seven months.

I have not observed any major issues with Skyhawk Security as it is agentless, so there are typically no issues related to agents. Most of the time, I have observed that it is stable with no major interruptions.

Skyhawk Security scales well due to its agentless approach, as we just connect via API or AWS environment under the telemetry from our existing tools. It scales automatically with our cloud footprint, and the intelligent simulator runs against the digital twin without impacting performance in our production environment.

I have used multiple tools, including various EDR and EPP tools, as I have worked on implementation projects for those solutions. I mainly have experience with multiple tools, and one of the customer requirements was to work with Skyhawk Security.

The integration with Skyhawk Security has been pretty smooth overall. It was relatively easy to connect with the other tools we already use because it is designed to work with existing security platforms without requiring agents and major infrastructure changes. What made it smoother is that it is a software-as-a-service based platform where we just confirm the API connection.

I have already mentioned that it reduces alerts by 90%, which saves us time and provides cost-cutting benefits. So from that perspective, you can say it is a good return on investment.

I do not have access to specific pricing details and licensing costs as that is managed by our management team, but I can say the setup and licensing process was smooth. I wish there was more transparent self-service pricing information available instead of having to go through sales to get the details. The value definitely justifies the 90% alert reduction time savings, but the initial cost might be a barrier for smaller teams.

Skyhawk Security has had a really positive impact on our organization, especially in reducing false positives and speeding up incident response times. We have seen a dramatic reduction in alert volume, with customers using Skyhawk Security reporting around a 99% reduction in CNAPP alert noise. This means instead of drowning in thousands of daily alerts, our SOC team is now focusing on just 1% of alerts that actually matter. This has saved us weeks to months in remediation time because we are not wasting resources chasing false positives or addressing vulnerabilities that pose no real threat.

While we have not tracked the exact numbers yet, we have seen our incident response time drop from around four to five hours to under 30 minutes for most alerts, which is a huge improvement. The biggest win is the reduction in false positives; instead of investigating 10 to 15 alerts per ticket, I am now looking at maybe one to two validation threats. I estimate we have saved about 60 to 70% time on alert triage, translating to probably 8 to 10 hours saved per week for me personally, which adds up to weeks of saved time across the whole team over a year. The ability to validate responses on the digital twin before deploying them also cuts our testing time from days to hours when creating new playbooks, allowing us to chase exploits much faster instead of waiting for attackers to find them first.

A small detail I really appreciate about Skyhawk Security that I have not mentioned yet is how the platform explains every alert with clear actionable context, detailing exactly why something is a threat and what an attacker could do next. As someone who has been in SOC operations for about 8 to 10 years, dealing with Microsoft Sentinel and Defender, I am used to alerts that just notify me of something suspicious without much detail. Skyhawk Security walks me through the whole attack story with built-in evidence, so I do not have to waste time digging through logs and piecing things together myself. I also appreciate how it integrates with the tools I already use without requiring major changes to our workflow, which makes adoption smoother for our team. The platform updates continuously as our cloud environment changes, so I never have to worry about testing outdated configurations or missing newly added assets. The fact that it is agentless and can be up and running in our environment in minutes instead of weeks was a huge plus since we did not have to deal with deploying and managing agents across our setup. These smaller details might seem minor, but they add up, saving me real time and reducing mental load while juggling multiple security tickets throughout the day.

My advice for others looking into using Skyhawk Security is that it will reduce your time and minimize your alerts for false positives, helping you a lot in the future. I rate this solution an 8 out of 10.

Public Cloud

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Skyhawk Security helps me identify threats in the cloud and misconfigurations in my environment and prioritize vulnerabilities based on their severity, but also based on the probability of a vulnerability being weaponized against my system.

Skyhawk Security processes all the vulnerabilities that are identified by my CSPM, which is Wiz. They take tens, sometimes hundreds of thousands of vulnerabilities, and they help me identify the ones that are exploitable. From those, they identify the ones that are weaponizable against my system. They also let me know which of the weaponizable vulnerabilities can affect some of our most important assets, which they call Crown Jewels.

The best features Skyhawk Security offers are the ability to prioritize your work, especially when you have limited staff, and ensure that you address the most important issues first and with urgency. A security team is usually very thin-spread and doesn't have a lot of resources to solve issues. Skyhawk allows me to prioritize those based on the actual probability of a vulnerability being exploited.

Skyhawk Security helps me prioritize through the dashboards. They have a dashboard that shows me the amount of vulnerabilities that I have. From those vulnerabilities, it lists out the ones that are exploitable. From the ones that are exploitable, it shows me the ones that are weaponizable and how they are weaponizable. From there, it shows me the ones that are weaponizable and have the ability to impact my Crown Jewels.

Skyhawk Security has positively impacted my organization because we are a small security team, and Skyhawk Security allows us to prioritize our work. We are better at what we do, and it doesn't take more people to do more important work. With the limited staff that we have, we are able to address the things that pose the highest risk to us first, rather than take all the critical vulnerabilities and address them one by one without any type of prioritization.

Our outcomes since using Skyhawk Security changed because we went down from thousands of vulnerabilities that we needed to review and address to a prioritized list that includes a handful of vulnerabilities that we needed to fix because they were the most urgent. We then have a work plan to address all the others. From a focus perspective, it improved the focus of my team, and it improved the efficiency and effectiveness of my team because we are now addressing the most urgent issues first.

Skyhawk Security can be improved mainly by improving the UI so it is a little bit easier to use, and the speed that it takes pages to load are the main downfalls.

I have been using Skyhawk Security since I started in the role, which has been about two and a half years.

Skyhawk Security is stable.

From my perspective, Skyhawk Security's scalability is good; I have not had any issues with scalability. They are able to process a lot of information from our AWS environment with very large volumes, and they don't have any issues with our volume.

The customer support for Skyhawk Security is great. There is a dedicated team that works with you. We have weekly calls. They are very responsive. In some cases, they released features within a few days, sometimes weeks, when we needed them. They are very attentive to customers, they listen to the market, and they listen to their customers. They are very market-oriented and their goal is to build a product that creates value for their customers.

I previously used a different solution, but I prefer not to mention the name of the previous solution. We switched because that solution wasn't giving us a breakdown of which vulnerabilities are actually weaponizable. They were looking at toxic combinations, and a toxic combination is not necessarily exploitable and not necessarily weaponizable. We switched to Skyhawk Security because it gives us better visibility and better understanding of the vulnerabilities.

I have seen a return on investment; the metrics are less about fewer employees needed because my team is two employees. The return on investment is not a matter of fewer employees needed. There is ongoing work in the security field, and we are doing better work. We are more effective and more efficient in how we do things. The amount of time it takes us to get to critical issues that are dangerous to our environment is a lot shorter now than what it used to be.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that Skyhawk Security is a very affordable product, probably the best value-for-money product that I have in my stack.

Before choosing Skyhawk Security, I evaluated other options, but I prefer not to mention the names of the vendors for privacy reasons.

The advice I would give to others looking into using Skyhawk Security is to always understand what the impact of your tool is on your organization and not just what the tool shows you. There are a lot of tools in the market that are looking to increase the number of vulnerabilities and the number of findings to prove that they are doing something and identifying risks or vulnerabilities. When those vulnerabilities are identified, ensure that you are able to address them in some type of order, and that order is based on your needs and not on the need to show a large number of vulnerabilities.

Skyhawk Security also has a CDR, a Cloud Detection and Response feature, that allows identification of abnormal activity in the cloud environment.

I purchased Skyhawk Security through the AWS Marketplace.

I would rate this product a 9 overall.

Public Cloud

Amazon Web Services (AWS)