The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), the world’s leading organization dedicated to defining standards, certifications, and best practices to help ensure a secure cloud computing environment, today released the findings of the Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) Survey Report. Commissioned by Microsoft, the survey, which was developed to better understand the adoption rates and challenges faced by organizations in implementing CNAPPs, found that they have emerged as a critical category of security tooling in recent years. Much of their popularity, the survey found, has been driven by the complexity of comprehensively securing multi-cloud environments and their ability to consolidate the capabilities of the numerous security tools organizations current deploy, namely Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM), Cloud Workload Protection (CWP), and Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM), network security, and secure DevOps.
“When considering the challenges facing today’s businesses, people and technology take center stage. On one hand, companies need to bolster the workforce with well-trained security professionals who understand their roles and responsibilities. On the other hand, there's a pressing need for effective technology and tooling that both addresses the rapidly evolving landscape of cybersecurity threats while effectively supporting security teams,” said Hillary Baron, lead author and Senior Technical Director for Research, Cloud Security Alliance. “It’s clear that today’s multi-cloud environments are increasingly complex, and enterprises must find ways to comprehensively address their security posture.”
“Many traditional security solutions still in use today just aren’t capable of adequately protecting increasingly dynamic and distributed multi-cloud strategies. As organizations navigate their path in the cloud, it’s imperative that they leverage solutions that offer an integrated approach to security. In doing so, they can better prepare themselves to handle the complex cybersecurity challenges of today and the future," said Adwait Joshi, Director of Cloud Security product marketing at Microsoft.