Frost Radar™: What Are the Top Companies Transforming the Cloud and Application Runtime Security Industry

A benchmarking system to spark companies to action - innovation that fuels new deal flow and growth pipelines

Featured Companies
Aqua Security
ARMO
Contrast Security
CrowdStrike
Kodem
Microsoft
Miggo
Mitiga
Oligo
Orca Security
Palo Alto Networks
Qualys
Sweet Security
Sysdig
Tenable
Upwind
Wiz

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Cloud and AI adoption are expanding the runtime attack surface across multicloud infrastructure, containers, Kubernetes (K8s), serverless, application programming interfaces (APIs), and AI applications in ways that static posture, scanning, and traditional application security (AppSec) tools cannot fully capture or control. Modern security operations (SecOps) teams need continuous runtime visibility into how cloud/AI workloads and applications actually behave in production. This has elevated the importance of cloud and application runtime security solutions. Cloud detection and response (CDR), application detection and response (ADR), and converged cloud-native application detection and response (CNADR)/cloud application detection and response (CADR) capabilities are particularly crucial to this shift, while cloud workload protection platforms (CWPPs), API runtime security, app network analysis, runtime vulnerability validation are critical supporting capabilities. CDR, ADR, and CWPP are becoming critical layers in the cloud-native security stack as well as modern cloud security and SecOps workflows. They ingest high-fidelity telemetry from cloud services, workloads, and application runtimes to detect anomalous behavior, prevent active exploits, and automate detection and containment/response (with human in the loop) effectively. The capabilities transform CNAPP, AppSec, and security information and event management (SIEM)/extended detection and response (XDR) platforms from static risk management into unified SecOps workflows that drive rapid detection, investigation, and response in the security operations center (SOC) environment, reducing dwell time and helping teams focus on risks that are truly reachable and exploitable in production instead of wasting hours on irrelevant posture alerts.

The main goal is continuous improvement.

  • What is the growth potential of cloud and application runtime security solutions?
  • Which growth drivers are emerging due to CDR, ADR, CNADR, CADR, and CWPPs?
  • How can you uncover new growth avenues that can redefine industries like CNAPP, AppSec, SIEM, and XDR?