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2024 Gartner® Market Guide for Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP)

Gartner forecasts that, by 2029, “60% of enterprises that do not deploy a unified CNAPP solution within their cloud architecture will lack extensive visibility into the cloud attack surface and consequently fail to achieve their desired zero-trust goals.”

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Looking ahead, how can security and risk management teams enhance their cloud security to consolidate tools, minimize costs and complexity, and boost visibility across their infrastructure? The Gartner® Market Guide for CNAPP offers comprehensive market analysis, key findings, and strategic recommendations for protecting your cloud-native applications.

Discover key market recommendations when selecting a CNAPP solution:

  • Streamline complexity and enhance the developer experience by opting for integrated CNAPP solutions that offer full life cycle visibility and protection of cloud-native applications from development and staging to runtime operations.
  • Choose CNAPP vendors that support a range of runtime visibility techniques, such as traditional agents, Extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) support, snapshotting, privileged containers, and Kubernetes (K8s) integration for maximum deployment flexibility.
  • Regardless of CNAPP adoption, create a DevSecOps vision centered on developer experience. Focus on reducing friction, improving risk identification, and minimizing false positives. Keep developers within their native tools and provide specific context and remediation recommendations.

Get complimentary access to the Market Guide. Uptycs is recognized as a Representative Vendor for CNAPP.

Gartner, Market Guide for Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP), 22 July 2024, Dale Koeppen, Charlie Winckless, Neil MacDonald, Esraa ElTahawy

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Analyst Report

2024 Gartner® Market Guide for Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP)

Gartner forecasts that, by 2029, “60% of enterprises that do not deploy a unified CNAPP solution within their cloud architecture will lack extensive visibility into the cloud attack surface and consequently fail to achieve their desired zero-trust goals.”

Looking ahead, how can security and risk management teams enhance their cloud security to consolidate tools, minimize costs and complexity, and boost visibility across their infrastructure? The Gartner® Market Guide for CNAPP offers comprehensive market analysis, key findings, and strategic recommendations for protecting your cloud-native applications.

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Our key takeaways from the report that you might find useful when selecting the right CNAPP vendor:

Uptycs CNAPP consolidates cloud security silos into a unified platform, providing a single security console, policy framework, and data lake. This unification enables greater automation, simplifies policy enforcement, and extends security coverage, all while reducing costs.

  • Streamline complexity and enhance the developer experience by opting for integrated CNAPP solutions that offer full life cycle visibility and protection of cloud-native applications from development and staging to runtime operations.
  • Choose CNAPP vendors that support a range of runtime visibility techniques, such as traditional agents, Extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) support, snapshotting, privileged containers, and Kubernetes (K8s) integration for maximum deployment flexibility.
  • Regardless of CNAPP adoption, create a DevSecOps vision centered on developer experience. Focus on reducing friction, improving risk identification, and minimizing false positives. Keep developers within their native tools and provide specific context and remediation recommendations.

Get complimentary access to the Market Guide. Uptycs is recognized as a Representative Vendor for CNAPP.

Gartner, Market Guide for Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP), 22 July 2024, Dale Koeppen, Charlie Winckless, Neil MacDonald, Esraa ElTahawy

GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally, and MAGIC QUADRANT is a registered trademark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates and are used herein with permission. All rights reserved. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product, or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.