The rapid increase in cloud adoption has triggered a surge in cloud-related data breaches and security incidents, creating a growing and urgent threat to organizations. Although cloud technology has been publicized as more secure, the underlying causes of these incidents have been misconfigurations and a need for compliance measures by cloud users.
This has highlighted the need to implement multiple cloud-specific security tools to address cloud-based security threats. While these tools are effective, they do not integrate well with each other, leaving security professionals with the tedious task of monitoring and managing multiple platforms without a unified view or streamlined process for correlating and prioritizing alerts.
To deal with this issue, vendors are introducing the Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) to provide a unified solution for securing cloud environments and ensuring compliance. Security administrators and chief information security officers (CISOs) in SMEs should evaluate CNAPP to determine if it’s …