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Frost Radar™: Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms, 2026

Publisher Frost & Sullivan
Published Apr 22, 2026
Length 108 Pages
SKU # MC21145849

Description

Cloud adoption globally continues to expand the enterprise attack surface, making cloud risk more dynamic, distributed, and operationally complex than earlier posture-centric models assumed. Modern cloud-native security needs more than a traditional shift-left approach that requires early security integration throughout the application development life cycle and security management for the cloud where application deployment and execution occur. Cloud-native application protection platforms (CNAPPs) are evolving from broad platform consolidation narratives into unified cloud risk operations layers that correlate posture, workload, vulnerability, identity, application, API, data, and emerging AI signals into a unified operating framework for risk prioritization, threat investigation, and remediation. They are no longer solutions that provide basic visibility, posture data, and compliance reporting. Demand has been increasing for a unified code-to-cloud-to-runtime and to SOC operating model. AI security is moving rapidly into CNAPP buying cycles, though remaining as adjacent capabilities. Nonetheless, it is expected to become more tightly integrated into broader cloud security platforms and workflows in the next couple of years.

Frost & Sullivan analyzes numerous companies in an industry. Those selected for further analysis based on their leadership or other distinctions are benchmarked across 10 Growth and Innovation criteria to reveal their position on the Frost Radar™. The publication presents competitive profiles of each company on the Frost Radar™ considering their strengths and the opportunities that best fit those strengths.

Table of Contents

108 Pages
Strategic Imperative and Growth Environment
Frost Radar™: Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms, 2026
Frost Radar™: Companies to Action
Aqua Security
CrowdStrike
Data Theorem
Fortinet
Microsoft
Orca Security
Palo Alto Networks
Qualys
SentinelOne
Sysdig
Tenable
Upwind
Wiz
Best Practices & Growth Opportunities
Best Practices
Growth Opportunities
Frost Radar™ Analytics
Next Steps: Leveraging the Frost Radar™ to Empower Key Stakeholders
Significance of Being on the Frost Radar™
Frost Radar™ Empowers the CEO’s Growth Team
Frost Radar™ Empowers Investors
Frost Radar™ Empowers Customers
Frost Radar™ Empowers the Board of Directors

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