Introduction
Today, organizations want to leverage the benefits of digital transformation for better revenue growth by achieving the benefits of digitalization. With the ever-growing data, organizations need a storage solution that is scalable and highly agile for seamless process and analysis. Organizations are deviating toward the public cloud for better ROI generation.
While migrating to the public cloud infrastructure, organizations need a platform that can address their security needs and find customized solutions to data vulnerabilities.
To tackle the security requirements of any organization, Gartner coined an approach called Cloud-Native Security Protection Platform.
What is CNAPP?
Cloud-native Application Protection Platform provides centralized management to tackle the security approaches to reduce complexity for DevOps and DevSecOps teams. This approach provides full-stack security by providing visibility of silos. With CNAPP, teams can assure security at runtime of any application, provide real-time data protection, and can integrate security in development workflows. It helps organizations effectively benefit from a cloud-native ecosystem by facilitating tools and resources to manage the security posture of different environments. A CNAPP offers end-to-end security throughout the CI/CD lifecycle.
What challenges does CNAPP tackle?
Risk Visibility
By integrating and centralizing the entire security posture, CNAPP increases the visibility of vulnerabilities. It becomes easier to handle vulnerabilities and predicts potential beaches by analyzing the loose gaps in security infrastructure.
Minimizing Human Error
By centralizing the security infrastructures, CNAPP provides a platform where all the reporting, analysis, scanning, and threat detections occur at one platform minimizing the risk of human error while data sharing.
Secure Software Development
CNAPP provides a secure development lifecycle by integrating security posture in CI/CD lifecycle. It analysis cumulative risk including misconfiguration and mismanagement that can lead to 90% of security breaches.
Components of CNAPP
Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)
Cloud Security Posture management is coined by Gartner for the tools that handle misconfiguration and compliance issues in the cloud. The tools examine and monitor the existing cloud environment with the ideal set of environments and report any security risk for ramifications.
Cloud Workload Protection Platform (CWPP)
A CWPP delivers protection for modern cloud, hybrid cloud, multi-cloud, and data center environments by delivering visibility for VMs, physical machines, containers, and other workloads. It scans the workload while deployment and constantly monitors it at runtime to prevent attack by deploying a combination of approaches like identity-based micro-segmentation, application control, memory protection, behavior monitoring, and system integrity control.
Many other components connected to CNAPP are Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) Scanning, Cloud Service Network Security (CSNS), Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM), Kubernetes Security Posture Management (KSPM), and Integration to Software Development Activities.
Conclusion
CNAPP addresses the entire application lifecycle to offer DevOps and DevSecOps teams a unified and automated security platform. It includes security with workloads containers, misconfiguration and compliance, etc. CNAPP handles security vulnerabilities of private cloud, public cloud, hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud environments.
With CNAPP, organizations can migrate to cloud-native resources with an assurance of integrated security infrastructure.
