The technology disclosed herein enables the detection and subsequent mitigation of threats in virtualized workload environments. In a particular embodiment, a method provides, in a workload orchestration platform, managing one or more first logical networks that include a plurality of first workloads and a plurality of shadow workloads. One or more initial processes of the shadow workloads, when instantiated, are known to a security application. The method further includes providing security permissions to the security application that enable the security application to manage the shadow workloads. Also, the method includes providing admin permissions to an administrator application that enable the administrator application to manage the first workloads irrespective of the shadow workloads.