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Dual-Edged Intelligence: AI-Driven Risk Management for Hybrid-Cloud Compute Environments

Abstract

Hybrid-cloud infrastructures combine on-premises and public-cloud resources to deliver agility and scale, but they also introduce novel security, compliance, and operational risks. We propose Dual-Edged Intelligence, a unified AI-driven framework that continuously profiles, predicts, and mitigates threats across virtual machines, containers, and serverless services in multi-cloud operations. Our approach layers supervised classification, unsupervised anomaly detection, and graph-based lateral-movement analysis into an ensemble scoring model. We implement a fully automated end to end pipeline starting from data collection through real-time remediation by using standard DevOps tooling. In a 10-node Kubernetes, Dual-Edged Intelligence reduced detection latency by 35%, cut false positives by 30%, and improved automated remediation success to 95% versus rule-based baselines. 

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