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STAGE 1: SILOS
Despite the momentum that’s built around CNAPPs in the last few years, many organizations are still at this stage of the process, dealing with multiple point tools to meet different cloud security needs. It’s understandable insofar as companies have spent a lot on these tools over the years and, however unwieldy they may be, their teams know how to use them.
But the lack of a holistic understanding of the total risk situation and how it’s evolving is bound to become unsustainable, especially as cloud complexity continues to intensify. Eventually, without integration, security teams are going to be overwhelmed, or the organization’s security posture is going to degrade unacceptably.
STAGE 2: PARTIAL INTEGRATION
Breaking out of tool silos usually begins with a (usually custom) effort to engineer some integration between existing security solutions. This can be time-intensive and/or costly depending on available internal resources or the need to bring in outside help. Any measure of integration is undeniably helpful, but at this stage the team is still going to have visibility gaps across the cloud environment, meaning the picture of risk is incomplete.
STAGE 3: UNIFIED DASHBOARDS
The next step beyond partial integration is to consolidate what those ‘cooperating’ tools are finding in a single view. This can significantly speed up analysis and allow for manual prioritization of vulnerabilities and threats but still leaves the security team with a heavy workload and slower responsiveness than they would have with automation.
STAGE 4: CNAPP
CNAPP consolidates and builds on the gains of integration and unified visibility and takes them to another level. Because it is purpose-built as a platform, it provides a truly comprehensive and fully integrated view of the cloud environment, with all the tools or security functions needed built in. This virtually eliminates tool sprawl and puts additional intelligence and automation to work for your security team so they can prioritize faster and more precisely and get ahead of threats by implementing proactive security measures.
Just as importantly, a CNAPP helps break down organizational silos by giving security, DevOps, and cloud teams a shared view of risk, enabling better collaboration, faster decision-making, and more aligned responses.
Trend as a CNAPP leader
Trend Micro has been a proponent of the platform approach to cybersecurity for years. Gartner, IDC, and Forrester have all recognized our Trend Vision One™ Cloud Security solution as a leading example of CNAPP for proactive cloud security. We use AI-powered threat prediction and real-time responsiveness to realize the full potential of CNAPP to help security teams stay ahead of evolving risks.
The value of the CNAPP market exceeded US$3.4 billion in 2024 and is only expected to keep growing. As it does, and as cloud security needs continue to evolve, our commitment is to help organizations progress along the CNAPP maturity journey and reach a place where they can have real confidence in their cloud security.
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