CNAPP

CNAPP is an acronym for Cloud Native Application Protection Platform. CNAPP is a term first coined by Gartner in 2021 to describe an all-in-one platform that unifies security and compliance capabilities to prevent, detect, and respond to cloud security threats. The main purpose of CNAPP is to implement security measures and fixing vulnerabilities as early as possible in an organizations development. The increase reliance on organizations have for cloud makes CNAPP more important and relevant todays world.

CNAPP can provide End-to-end security coverage, Visibility, Scalability, DevSecOps integration, Advanced threat detection, Compliance and governance, Cost Efficiency, Improved incident response, Support multi-cloud and hybrid environments, Enhanced developer productivity.

  • End-to-end security coverage:
  • Visibility: CNAPP will increase visibility and control because it provides a single platform for everything happening in multiple clouds.
  • Scalability: CNAPP is will increase scalability because it is designed to interact diverse systems at the same time and give the user one platform where you can see everything happening. Another reason is that CNAPP provides automation for repetitive security tasks.
  • DevSecOps integration: CNAPP helps with providing more security to the DevOps process. This is done by providing many security tools within the same platform that can be implemented early in the development process.
  • Threat detection: Threat detection will improve because CNAPP will provide tools to continuously monitor for suspicious behavior and patterns.
  • Compliance and governance: CNAPP can help with tools for organizing all the regulations and making sure the organization is following the regulations of the country they are operating inn.
  • Cost Efficiency: Since CNAPP is centralizing many security tools into on platform the cost will reduce compared to having many different security providers. The organizing will also have simpler time paying one bill for all the security tools than paying multiple bills to multiple providers.
  • Improved incident response: CNAPP provides tools that can alert users when an incident is happening. This will improve to response time to an incident that can mitigate the damage.
  • Support multi-cloud and hybrid environments: One of the biggest strengths is the possibility of having multiple cloud providers but also have one single platform to configure everything on.
  • Enhanced developer productivity: Simplifying the security aspect with CNAPP increase the productivity of the organization because they don't have to waste as much time on configuring security measures.

Conclusion

CNAPP will be an important platform for many organizations in the future because it simplifies many aspects of cyber security. Simplifying Cyber security will increase the likelihood of organizations compiling to regulation but also following the best security practices for their need.