Cloud Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPPs) have emerged as a critical category of security tooling in recent years due to the complexity of comprehensively securing multi-cloud environments, according to Cloud Security Alliance. Secure cloud computing environment Much of CNAPPs popularity has been driven by their ability to consolidate the capabilities of the numerous security tools organizations current deploy, namely Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM), Cloud Workload Protection (CWP), and Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM), network security, and secure DevOps.

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