As Cloud Computing Gets More Complex, So Does Protecting It. Here's How To Make Sense Of The Market
SiliconANGLE , Friday, May 12,2023
Whether companies are repatriating their cloud workloads back on-premises or to colocated servers, they still need to protect them, and the market for that protection is suddenly undergoing some major changes.
Until the past year or so, cloud-native application protection platforms, or CNAPPs for short, were all the rage. These covered four distinct security product lines to protect access controls: a Cloud Infrastructure Entitlements Manager that manages overall access controls and risk management tasks; a Cloud Workload Protection Platform that secures code across all kinds of cloud-based repositories and provides runtime protection across the entire development environment and code pipelines; a Cloud Access Security Broker or CASB, which handles authentication and encryption tasks; and a Cloud Security Posture Manager that combines threat intelligence and remediation.