Techniques for effective network exposure detection of private endpoints through a cloud-native router

Abstract

A system and method for detecting effective exposure of private API endpoints in a cloud computing environment is presented. The method includes inspecting a resource in a cloud computing environment utilizing agentless inspection; detecting a cybersecurity object on the inspected resource, the cybersecurity object indicating that the resource is a proxy-type appliance; detecting a private endpoint in the cloud computing environment, wherein the resource is configured to access the private endpoint, and the resource is further configured to access an external network, and wherein the external network is external to the cloud computing environment; determining that the private endpoint is potentially exposed via a network path which includes at least the resource; actively inspecting the network path to determine that the private endpoint is exposed to the external network; and initiating a remediation action based on a result of the active inspection.