Cloud/Application Runtime Security (CARS) Market, Global, 2025–2029
Description
SecOps and SOC teams focus on core threat management tasks, including threat monitoring, incident response, threat intelligence analysis, and security vulnerability management. Traditionally, these teams relied on tools such as SIEM, UEBA, and XDR to manage threats in on-premises environments.
However, the rapid adoption of cloud and cloud-native application services has rendered conventional threat management strategies inadequate. The dynamic, distributed, and ephemeral nature of cloud environments—particularly with containers and serverless functions—has created a constantly shifting attack surface. These resources spin up and down rapidly, making it difficult for SecOps teams to maintain real-time visibility and respond effectively to threats.
The multi-layered architecture of cloud-native applications—including containers, microservices, and cloud infrastructure—further complicates detection and response. Attacks often traverse layers, beginning with an exploited API or unknown vulnerability at the application level, then moving laterally through containers and into infrastructure. To manage these threats, SecOps teams must correlate events across layers, which requires unified visibility and advanced data correlation capabilities.
While CNAPP and AppSec testing tools provide significant value for risk and compliance management, they are primarily geared toward shift-left security. CNAPPs—especially agentless platforms—focus on identifying vulnerabilities and misconfigurations to harden environments. These tools benefit cloud engineers, DevOps, and developers more than SecOps teams, as they emphasize pre-deployment risk mitigation over real-time protection.
To close these gaps, organizations must invest in modern runtime security approaches. CDR and ADR solutions offer a powerful complement to CNAPPs, AppSec tools, and legacy runtime defenses such as WAF, RASP, runtime reachability, and EDR. These tools provide SecOps teams with real-time visibility, threat detection, and response capabilities across the full cloud stack—enabling them to address active threats that shift-left tools cannot detect or contain.
However, the rapid adoption of cloud and cloud-native application services has rendered conventional threat management strategies inadequate. The dynamic, distributed, and ephemeral nature of cloud environments—particularly with containers and serverless functions—has created a constantly shifting attack surface. These resources spin up and down rapidly, making it difficult for SecOps teams to maintain real-time visibility and respond effectively to threats.
The multi-layered architecture of cloud-native applications—including containers, microservices, and cloud infrastructure—further complicates detection and response. Attacks often traverse layers, beginning with an exploited API or unknown vulnerability at the application level, then moving laterally through containers and into infrastructure. To manage these threats, SecOps teams must correlate events across layers, which requires unified visibility and advanced data correlation capabilities.
While CNAPP and AppSec testing tools provide significant value for risk and compliance management, they are primarily geared toward shift-left security. CNAPPs—especially agentless platforms—focus on identifying vulnerabilities and misconfigurations to harden environments. These tools benefit cloud engineers, DevOps, and developers more than SecOps teams, as they emphasize pre-deployment risk mitigation over real-time protection.
To close these gaps, organizations must invest in modern runtime security approaches. CDR and ADR solutions offer a powerful complement to CNAPPs, AppSec tools, and legacy runtime defenses such as WAF, RASP, runtime reachability, and EDR. These tools provide SecOps teams with real-time visibility, threat detection, and response capabilities across the full cloud stack—enabling them to address active threats that shift-left tools cannot detect or contain.
Table of Contents
- List of Abbreviations
- Scope of Analysis
- Why is it Increasingly Difficult to Grow?
- The Strategic Imperative 8™
- The Impact of the Top 3 Strategic Imperatives on the CARS Market
- Cloud Security Operation Challenges
- Limitations of Current Runtime Security Solutions
- How CDR and ADR Address the Challenges
- The Need for Unified Cloud/App Runtime Security Solution
- Market Definition-CNADR
- Market Definition-CDR and ADR
- Market Definition-CWPP and EDR
- Market Definition-CNADR’s Key Functionalities
- Market Definition-Benefits of CNADR
- Market Definition-CNADR Workflows
- Market Definition-CNADR vs. CNAPP
- CNAPP vs. CNADR
- Challenges in Achieving Unified CNADR
- Research Methodology
- Vendor Inclusion and Exclusion
- Total CARS Market-Industry Adoption
- Total CARS Market-Technology Trends
- Total CARS Market-Market Developments
- Top Use Cases and Features-CDR
- Top Use Cases and Features-ADR
- Top Use Cases and Features-CNADR
- Growth Environment
- Key Competitors
- Growth Metrics
- Growth Drivers
- Growth Driver Analysis
- Growth Restraints
- Growth Restraint Analysis
- Forecast Considerations
- Revenue Forecast
- Revenue Forecast by Segment
- Revenue Forecast Analysis
- Pricing Trends and Forecast Analysis
- Revenue by Vendor
- Revenue Analysis by Vendor
- Future of Cloud Runtime Security
- The Possibility of a New Category
- Recommendations
- Recommendation 1: Understand Your Objectives and Use Cases
- Recommendation 2: Choose Solutions That Offer Comprehensive Capabilities, Including Shift-left Security
- Recommendation 3: Prioritize Solutions That Support Seamless Integration with Existing SOC Toolchains
- Recommendation 4: Choose Solutions That Helps Reduce Noise and Enhance Automated Response Capabilities
- Recommendation 5: Prioritize Solutions That Offer Simplified and Actionable Insights for Analysts
- Growth Opportunity 1: Increasing Requirements for Runtime Security and Real-time Threat Management
- Growth Opportunity 2: Rising Demand for Managed Cloud Threat Management Services
- Growth Opportunity 3: Requirements for CARS to be Incorporated in Broader CNAPP and Detection & Response Platform
- Benefits and Impacts of Growth Opportunities
- Next Steps
Pricing
Currency Rates
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