Organizations worldwide continue to accelerate their cloud migration, driven by the surge of AI-native applications and services that on-premises systems are not designed for. Multicloud and hybrid cloud strategies are becoming the norm in their digital transformation journey. This has exposed new security challenges, such as inconsistencies in controls across cloud platforms and gaps in workload risk and threat visibility, that attackers have been quick to exploit.

A cloud workload protection platform (CWPP) manages these complex environments, providing comprehensive visibility and security protection for cloud workloads, applications, and data. These platforms enable automation, deep visibility, and the detection of anomalous behaviors and threats across diverse cloud workloads, such as containers, K8s clusters, and serverless functions.

• Why are vendors prioritizing real-time threat detection, runtime protection, and cloud-native workload visibility, and how will it drive the evolution and growth of the CWPP industry?
• Which industries are the largest adopters of CWPP, and why do they require robust cloud security solutions?
• How will the growth of cloud spending, awareness of the cloud threat landscape, and heightened accountability of CISOs accelerate CWPP adoption?