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2023 Gartner® Market Guide for Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP)

The inherent complexity of cloud native environments makes it difficult to monitor them, potentially opening up security vulnerabilities. These environments have their own challenges and unique security demands. The distinct characteristics of cloud native applications make them impossible to secure without a complex set of overlapping tools spanning development and production.

Understanding and addressing the real risk of cloud native applications requires advanced analytics—combining siloed views of application risk, open source component risk, cloud infrastructure risk, and runtime workload risk. The 2023 Gartner Market Guide for Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) states: “Reduce complexity and improve the developer experience by choosing integrated CNAPP offerings that provide complete life cycle visibility and protection of cloud-native applications across development and staging and into runtime operation."

This Gartner® report provides critical insights into the key solution required to secure a cloud native environment and how CNAPP can address end-to-end cloud native security requirements across organization workloads with a broad set of capabilities.

Download the Gartner report to learn about:

  • The need for an integrated security approach with cloud native application protection platforms (CNAPPs) that combines the power of disparate security tools.
  • Best practices for securing microservices, including containers, Kubernetes, and serverless with CNAPP.
  • The benefits of embedding security in DevOps workflows.
  • Recommendations for identifying, evaluating and selecting the right CNAPP for your organization.

*Gartner, Market Guide for Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms, By Neil MacDonald, Charlie Winckless, Dale Koeppen, 14 March 2023.

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