Gartner® Market Guide for Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms
As cloud native applications are becoming mainstream and growing in scale, the needs to comprehensively protect them grows in importance. Gartner predicts that “By 2029, 35% of all enterprise applications will run in containers, an increase from less than 15% in 2023.”
“CNAPPs address the full life cycle protection requirements of cloud-native applications and infrastructure from development to production.” In this report, Gartner recommends that risk and security leaders “Safeguard cloud-native applications and counter the growing attack surface by adopting CNAPP offerings. These solutions protect against threats in the runtime environment, mitigate misconfigurations in cloud infrastructure, and streamline security integration and collaboration throughout the overall development experience.”
Get the full guide to get the recommendations from Gartner. Here are our key takeaways:
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Key CNAPP requirements including mandatory, recommended, and optional capabilities -
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How a CNAPP can help realize modern DevSecOps strategies
Aqua Security Software is proud to be recognized as a Representative Vendor for CNAPP. The Aqua Platform offers a broad set of capabilities we believe support core, recommended and optional capabilities in this report.
Gartner, Market Guide for Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms, Dale Koeppen, Charlie Winckless, Neil MacDonald, Esraa ElTahawy, 22 July 2024
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