Recently, Forrester released the 2025 “The Cloud Native Application Protection Solutions Landscape” report. NSFOCUS Cloud Native Application Protection Solution (hereinafter referred to as “NSFOCUS CNAPP”) has been selected among Representative vendors in the field of cloud native security, which NSFOCUS believes is due to its continuous innovation and prospective layout.
The solution is an integrated, collaborative and intelligent cloud-native security platform that deeply integrates core capabilities such as Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM), Container Security, Cloud Workload Protection (CWPP), Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Security, and Cloud Infrastructure Rights Management (CIEM).
CNAPP Solution
NSFOCUS CNAPP focuses on cloud-native application security protection and adopts a lightweight architecture design. It can flexibly adapt to various cloud-native environments and provide unified security protection for the entire life cycle of cloud-native applications from construction, deployment to operation:
Shift-Left security with Agility: CNAPPdeeply integrates DevSecOps processes, conducts comprehensive security compliance scans on IaC templates and container images in the early stages of CI/CD pipelines, and provides refined code audit functions to assist developers in quickly fixing problems, significantly reduces security risks before application release, and achieves high-quality security project delivery.
All-Round Protection for Cloud Workloads: CNAPP provides cloud workload protection capabilities covering the entire life cycle. At different stages such as image construction, deployment and runtime, it continuously monitors workload behavior, resource access and network traffic, combines multi-dimensional security measures such as vulnerability management, behavior monitoring, file integrity protection and malicious activity detection to ensure the stability and security of cloud business loads and effectively resist internal and external threats.
Intelligent Runtime Protection and Proactive Defense: Relying on the NSFGPT (AI model developed by NSFOCUS) analysis engine and real-time threat intelligence, it continuously monitors and detects abnormalities in dynamic loads such as containers and microservices. It provides a panoramic cloud-native asset map and visual risk view to centrally present the security situation of multi-cloud/hybrid cloud environments with built-in rich compliance baselines to achieve continuous monitoring of configuration risks.
Refined Network Micro-Segmentation and API Protection: CNAPP implements identity and workload-based micro-segmentation policies to effectively control lateral traffic risks. At the same time, it detects API access behavior to identify unauthorized access and potential data leakage, and comprehensively ensures the security of communication between microservices.
Open Architecture and Seamless Integration: CNAPP supports mainstream cloud-native platforms such as Kubernetes, providing out-of-the-box security capabilities. With powerful API and ecological integration capabilities, it can be deeply integrated with the CI/CD tool chain to build an automated, collaborative and linked security operation system to help enterprises achieve comprehensive security governance.
Looking ahead, NSFOCUS CNAPP will continue to promote technological evolution and capability iteration. NSFOCUS is committed to achieving deeper breakthroughs in the field of cloud native security. By continuously introducing AI-driven security analysis and enhancing active defense and cloud-ground collaboration capabilities, NSFOCUS aims to help enterprises build a more resilient and adaptive cloud-native security system.
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