Understanding the Gartner® Market Guide for Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms

This blog summarizes Gartner’s Market Guide for CNAPP, noting the rise of CNAPP driven by cloud and AI adoption and the need for unified visibility and risk management across development and runtime. It outlines predictions for centralized platform engineering, increased containerization by 2029, and the benefits of CNAPP in breaking silos, unifying risk views, and empowering developers. The piece advises organizations to use joint evaluation teams, prioritize integrated platforms with unified data models, assess overlap with existing DevSecOps tools, and conduct functional pilots to validate developer experience and security effectiveness.