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Best Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP)

Lauren Worth
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Researched and written by Lauren Worth

Cloud-native application protection platforms (CNAPP) secure the development cycle of cloud-native applications from the earliest stages of application development up to the production environment. CNAPPs help security teams streamline security management and compliance by providing complete visibility into DevSecOps, configurations, access control, workloads, and vulnerabilities.

Generally, organizations have different tools for managing development, data, infrastructure, and access. A CNAPP helps companies consolidate their security investments as it integrates multiple capabilities, such as cloud security posture management (CSPM), cloud workload protection platform (CWPP), cloud compliance, and identity and access management (IAM), into one platform. CNAPP may be sold as a single product or as a suite of products that can be purchased individually.

To qualify for inclusion in the Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) category, a product must:

Monitor cloud applications and infrastructure for misconfigurations and incorrect enforcement of security policies and provide remediation
Secure virtual machines, containers, and cloud infrastructure in hybrid, public, and private cloud environments during runtime
Monitor public clouds to identify access breaches continuously
Protect cloud systems from unauthorized use through identity management and access control
Assess security risks and ensure compliance with cloud security policies

In some cases, a CNAPP may provide features of cloud security monitoring and analytics software and container security software, including:

Creating an inventory of all cloud assets to keep track of existing ones and update when new assets are added
Monitoring files and data in the cloud environments for suspicious activities and alerting the relevant stakeholders in case of security breaches
Protecting all components of containerized applications and their infrastructure
Enforcing access and security policies on container applications
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By Wiz
(697)4.7 out of 5
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Wiz transforms cloud security for customers – including 40% of the Fortune 100 – by enabling a new operating model. With Wiz, organizations can democratize security across the cloud lifecycle, empower

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Lacework offers the original and leading data-driven cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP). Lacework is trusted by nearly 1,000 global innovators to secure the cloud from build to run.

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(302)4.4 out of 5
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Microsoft Defender for Cloud is a cloud native application protection platform for multicloud and hybrid environments with comprehensive security across the full lifecycle, from development to runtime

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(209)4.6 out of 5
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The Orca Cloud Security Platform identifies, prioritizes, and remediates risks and compliance issues in workloads, configurations, and identities across your cloud estate spanning AWS, Azure, Google C

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(155)4.5 out of 5

CloudGuard CNAPP provides you with more context to drive actionable security and smarter prevention, from code-to-cloud, across the application lifecycle. CloudGuard’s prevention-first approach prote

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(189)4.5 out of 5

AlgoSec, a global cybersecurity leader, empowers organizations to secure application connectivity and cloud-native applications throughout their multi-cloud and hybrid network. Trusted by more tha

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(107)4.9 out of 5
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Singularity Cloud Security is SentinelOne’s comprehensive, cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP). It combines the best of agentless insights with AI-powered threat protection, to secure

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(100)4.8 out of 5
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Sysdig Secure is our CNAPP platform that more than 700 enterprise customers use to address CNAPP, VM, CSPM, CIEM, container security and more - at enterprise scale. Our platform spans prevention, dete

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(69)4.6 out of 5
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Unified cloud security, from endpoint to cloud. Stop cloud breaches and consolidate disjointed point products with the world’s only CNAPP built on a unified agent and agentless approach to cloud sec

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(59)4.1 out of 5
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Cortex Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, the next version of Prisma Cloud, understands a unified security approach is essential for effectively addressing AppSec, CloudSec, and SecOps. Connecting cloud sec

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(57)4.2 out of 5
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Aqua Security sees and stops attacks across the entire cloud native application lifecycle in a single, integrated platform. From software supply chain security for developers to cloud security and run

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By ARMO
(36)4.6 out of 5

ARMO Platform is the only runtime-driven, open-source first, cloud security platform. It is the only security platform that continuously minimizes cloud attack surface based on runtime insights, while

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(30)4.7 out of 5

Tenable Cloud Security (formerly Ermetic) reveals and prioritizes security gaps in AWS, Azure and GCP and enables organizations to remediate them immediately. The Tenable Cloud Security cloud native a

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(25)4.4 out of 5
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Calico security platform provides secure networking and comprehensive protection for containers and Kubernetes to prevent, detect, and mitigate security breaches. Calico Cloud is built on Calico Open

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(20)4.8 out of 5

Runecast is an enterprise CNAPP platform which saves your Security and Operations teams time and resources by enabling a proactive approach to ITOM, CSPM, and compliance. It helps you proactively reme

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