Our Takeaways From 2024 Gartner Market Guide for Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP): Insights and Market Evolution

The document summarizes Gartner’s 2024 Market Guide for Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) and presents Qualys’ perspective and offerings. It emphasizes the consolidation of CSPM, CWPP, KSPM, and CIEM into unified CNAPPs to improve visibility, compliance, and risk-based prioritization across cloud and containerized environments. Qualys highlights capabilities such as comprehensive asset context (TotalCloud), compliance at cloud speed, prioritized risk reduction (TruRisk Insights), AI-driven cloud threat detection and response (CDR), and seamless CI/CD integration. The piece is a strategic/marketing overview rather than an incident or threat report.