Shifting from CWPP to CNAPP: new standards for cloud security

**Overview:** The report contrasts CWPP and CNAPP, explaining that while CWPPs focus on workload protection (e.g., VMs, containers, serverless) with agent-based monitoring and threat detection, CNAPPs deliver a broader, integrated, largely agentless approach that spans runtime protection, misconfiguration and entitlement management, IaC/VCS scanning, and cross-layer detection and response. It highlights CWPP limitations (visibility gaps, agent overhead, complexity, and limited coverage for newer cloud technologies) and argues that CNAPP unifies cloud security across development to production, improves prioritization via context, reduces operational complexity and costs, and aligns with multi-team use (SecOps, DevOps, SOC, GRC), positioning CNAPP as the future-proof choice.