Cloud security continues to be a vexing situation, and the tool set continues to become more complex, riddled with acronyms. Enter the Cloud Native Application Protection Platform or CNAPP. IT managers are looking for a few basic elements from these products, including more accurate threat detection, support for all workloads across multiple cloud deployments, and ways to implement preventable controls.

Even still, that is a lot of software to manage, integrate, and understand. However, almost none of the products that claim to be CNAPP have a full set of features that incorporate all four of these categories. In this post for CSOonline, I explain the landscape and show you how to navigate amongst the contenders.