The multilayered architecture of cloud-native applications, involving containers, microservices, and underlying infrastructure, complicates threat detection and incident response. Attacks can move across these layers, starting at the application level, exploiting application programming interface (API) or unknown vulnerabilities, and moving laterally through the container layer to the cloud infrastructure. Security operations (SecOps) teams need to correlate events across these layers to understand the full scope of an incident, which demands advanced correlation capabilities and a unified view of security data from various sources.

• Why have many organizations invested heavily in cloud and application security technologies?
• How are organizations converging development and operations security practices, aiming for end-to-end protection and threat management?
• Which growth opportunities in cloud and application runtime security solutions can help provide real-time insights and active defense?