Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP)

What is it?
Gartner recently designated CNAPP as a new category to reflect emerging trends in cloud security. CNAPPs bring application and data context in the convergence of the CSPM and CWPP archetypes to protect hosts and workloads, including VMs, containers, and serverless functions.

In what context is it best used?
IaaS and PaaS environments.

Benefits and limitations

Benefits

• Strong automation and orchestration.
• Better security by enabling standardization and deeper layered defenses.
• Allows workloads to be accessed more frequently.