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Gartner 2024 CNAPP Market Guide Insights for Leaders
As businesses increasingly pivot to cloud-native applications, the landscape of cybersecurity becomes ever more challenging.
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In this blog, Trend Micro shares our perspective for organisations looking to fortify against emerging cloud security threats while referencing the Gartner® 2024 Market Guide for Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP).
Understanding the Challenge
The Gartner Market Guide highlights a critical issue:
"The attack surface of cloud-native applications and infrastructure is expanding, with attackers focusing on the runtime environment, including network, compute, storage, identities and permissions, and the misconfiguration of cloud management and control features.”
Vulnerabilities, exposure and threats in your cloud applications are not just theoretical; they are real risks that can have significant financial and reputational consequences. Understanding these dynamics is crucial for making informed decisions about your organisation’s cybersecurity strategy.
The Importance of CNAPPs
According to Trend, Gartner emphasises the need for comprehensive security solutions that cover the entire application lifecycle—from development to production. CNAPPs are designed to address these needs by integrating various security capabilities into a unified framework. By adopting a CNAPP, organisations can improve their visibility into security risks and streamline their response efforts across different teams.
Preventing Cloud Risk – More than just visibility
More than just visibility, preventing cloud risk requires a comprehensive approach that includes prevention and remediation.
- Visibility: Trend Vision One - Cloud Security provide deeper insights into cloud asset risks, allowing organisations to accurately identify vulnerabilities, misconfiguration, compliance violations as well as threats & attacks with prioritisation. This enhanced visibility is crucial for understanding where the most significant threats lie.
- Prevention: Effective risk management goes beyond identification. Trend Vision One offers actionable recommendations and runtime protection, such as security group rule changes, IAM policy adjustments, and container security improvements. By implementing these proactive measures, organisations can significantly reduce their risk exposure.
- Remediation: When issues do arise, prompt remediation is key. Trend Vision One facilitates quick fixes by enabling the application of patches, updates to applications, and reconfiguration of resources. This rapid response minimises the window of exposure and mitigates potential impacts.
By integrating visibility, prevention, and remediation, Trend helps organisations transform their approach to cloud security, turning it from a reactive burden into a proactive, strategic advantage.
Trend Vision One – Cloud Security: A Modern CNAPP
Trend's Cloud Security platform offers continuous attack surface discovery, real-time risk assessments (including prioritisation) and automated mitigation actions empowering organisations to reduce their risk exposure significantly. With features that correlate information across security domains, our platform enables teams to work collaboratively, ensuring that security becomes a shared responsibility rather than a siloed function.
Our platform promotes a culture of security in your organisation by encouraging developers and security teams to collaborate without affecting productivity. This approach helps create secure applications from the start and is also highlighted in the Gartner 2024 CNAPP Market Guide.
“Proactively identifying and prioritising risks during development, while providing developers with adequate context, is essential due to developers perceiving security as an obstacle.”
Going Beyond
Because cloud-native apps are likely connecting to or sharing data elsewhere in your IT landscape, our platform provides a unified view into your security—no matter where your data resides. Trend goes beyond the cloud, across your entire attack surface, to take in critical threat intelligence from email, networks, on-premises servers, endpoints and cloud workloads for maximum visibility and control. Integration with third-party technologies to our platform adds even more value for customers. Trend Vision One helps you enhance resilience across your enterprise, simplifying security, to stop breaches faster.
Driving Secure Innovation
In today’s fast-paced business environment, the ability to innovate securely is paramount. By leveraging a CNAPP like Trend’s Cloud Security platform, organisations can not only enhance their security posture but also accelerate their mitigation processes. This integrated approach minimises the friction between security and development teams, allowing for faster, more efficient deployment of cloud-native applications.
Conclusion: A Call to Action
As you navigate the challenges of cloud security, the insights from the Gartner 2024 CNAPP Market Guide highlight the importance of adopting comprehensive security solutions.
Using a CNAPP like Trend Vision One – Cloud Security can help protect your organisation against evolving threats and foster a collaborative security culture.
In an era where digital transformation is crucial for success, ensuring the security of your cloud-native applications is not just a technical challenge—it’s a strategic imperative.
Equip your organisation with the right tools and strategies to thrive in this complex landscape and turn security from a burden into a competitive advantage.
Gartner, Market Guide for Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms, Dale Koeppen, Charlie Winckless, Neil MacDonald, Esraa ElTahawy, 22 July 2024.
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