Cloud security can be a complex area,
and with security being top of mind for businesses and organizations,
it becomes crucial when having to address and manage emerging security threats
and risks that can occur in their cloud and application lifecycle.
This becomes important in order to figure out
what types of security solutions
are going to help address those security risks and gaps.
There are security solutions that are there today
that can do what needs to be done
to be able to manage these types of threats and risk.
However, a lot of these types of solutions take an independent approach
that can make it challenging overall
in how to strategically manage and implement these types of security solutions
throughout your application and workload life cycle.
And overall with this bigger challenge,
it is how do you manage the overall landscape of all your security tools,
while also being able to strategically and continuously achieve
your security compliance goals
across your workloads and applications?
In this video, we're going to talk about Cloud Native Application Protection Platform,
also known as CNAPP.
CNAPP was coined by Gartner
as a unified and tightly integrated set of security compliance capabilities
designed to secure and protect cloud native applications
across development and production.
So what does that mean for businesses and organizations
that are looking to not only adopt,
but even consider replacing
their security and compliance strategies and approaches?
Well, with the CNAPP platform, it consists of some critical
and key common components that are available today.
Some of those key components can be considered as CSPM,
CWPP,
and CIEMM.
To start, CSPM is cloud security posture management.
And with this type of security solution,
it generally provides the ability to continuously monitor
your cloud infrastructure environments and data,
and be able to offer configuration management
across these types of environments.
And that can be done by proactively implementing and applying controls
based on regulatory and security requirements
that can help surface any misconfigurations in these type of environments,
and be able to allow you to quickly assess your security and compliance state
and any sort of security issues and compliance risks that may come up.
The next key component of a CNAPP platform
is CWPP, also known as Cloud Workload Protection Platform.
This type of security solution
is targeted on how can you protect your workloads.
Workloads such as containers, hosts,
virtual machines, serverless functions, and more.
And the key capabilities that are generally provided
in a CWPP solution consists of
being able to detect threats continuously,
and manage and surface vulnerabilities that may occur
and be discovered across your workloads and applications.
This becomes important when being able to
not only address security risk upfront,
but able to potentially remediate them as they are discovered.
The next key component for CNAPP platform is CIEM.
Also known as cloud identity entitlement management.
This security solution is generally targeted at the process
of how to not only manage your identities,
but be able to manage the identities of a single and multi-cloud.
This can consists of access rights, privileges and permissions.
Now, not only is the management of identities important for your cloud environments,
but being able to surface any unintentional
and excessive permissions that can lead to threats
and data breaches is what's going to be achieved
when you adopt a CIEM security solution.
Again, these are key common components of a CNAPP platform.
However, there are more types of components that can be considered
and tightly integrated in a CNAPP platform,
which makes it a compelling type of security platform
and strategy to adopt.
Now, what are some of the benefits
that businesses and organizations can consider
as they are looking to either adopt a security approach for their cloud,
or potentially displace and replace
to be able to effectively meet their security and compliance goals,
strategically and uniformly.
A CNAPP platform can provide you centralized management.
And not only centralized management of their overall postures,
but be able to also centrally manage
the different types of automation and monitoring results
that can come up from the different types of security solutions
that are applied and implemented into their workloads.
So this means that you can centrally, you can have a centralized view
of all of your types of results
that can come up into a visible, unified form
where you can essentially see how can you manage
the security compliance overall
and be able to understand where your posture is
for your business and organization.
This can also lead to the ability to have more insights
and visibility into your cloud environments.
So that way you can really understand
where your workloads are and how are they doing
against security requirements that either your organization sets,
or that regulatory frameworks are requiring.
And this becomes crucial as you not only proactively identify
these types of security risks and threats,
but be able to address them and prevent them in the future.
And with that comes earlier detection
of these types of threats and vulnerabilities
to be able to effectively understand
how can you not only address these
types of threats and vulnerabilities in production,
but from the development to production states.
And this helps development and DevOps team
be able to be more productive
in the sense of how can they not only apply
this level of automation that is available,
but to be able to also detect these types of risks and issues
earlier on in the pipeline process?
And with that becomes again adding not only a level of automation,
but being able to have extensive and cohesive automation
that is supported throughout a CNAPP platform
and throughout your security solutions
that are tackling your individual
areas that need to be focussed and addressed.
And lastly, the biggest part of what a CNAPP platform
can provide and address is what we talked about earlier,
those challenges of how do you manage multiple security solutions
that can be available today that you're already adopting today
and being able to understand how can we reduce the overhead
and complexity that is required to be able to
manage and maintain these independent approaches,
as well as how to reduce the level of overhead
and manual effort that is required in order to be able to
address your security and compliance posture.
And these are going to be some of the key benefits to consider
when looking at a CNAPP platform
and considering how can you apply this strategically
into your business and organization's
security compliance structure.
To learn more about CNAPP, you can select the link below
and learn more through the KuppingerCole Leadership Compass report on CNAPP.
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