From Posture to Protection: Why SecOps Is Prioritizing Cloud & Application Runtime Security
As organizations rapidly adopt cloud and cloud-native application services, traditional on-premises threat management tools struggle to keep pace with the dynamic, distributed, and fast-changing nature of modern environments. Containers, microservices, serverless functions, and multi-layered architectures create constantly shifting attack surfaces that are difficult to monitor and defend in real time. Legacy approaches while valuable for pre-deployment risk mitigation leave critical runtime gaps that attackers exploit.
Frost & Sullivan’s Cloud/Application Runtime Security (CARS) Growth Opportunities study examines how emerging Cloud Detection and Response (CDR) and Active Detection and Response (ADR) solutions are reshaping security operations. By delivering unified visibility, advanced event correlation, and real-time threat response across the full cloud stack, these solutions empower SecOps teams to counter active threats that shift-left tools alone cannot address thus unlocking new growth potential for vendors driving innovation in runtime protection.
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Strategic Imperatives to Address
Transformative Megatrends:
Capitalize on the rapid adoption of cloud-native technologies by replacing traditional perimeter security and legacy detection tools with advanced, real-time detection and response solutions purpose-built for dynamic runtime environments.
Competitive Intensity
Deliver competitively priced CNADR (Cloud-native Application Detection and Response), CDR, and ADR solutions with lower total cost of ownership and proven security outcomes to meet rising customer expectations, as economic pressures and market competition drive accelerated adoption over the next 3 to 5 years.
Disruptive Technologies
Innovate specialized runtime security solutions that enable real-time threat detection, automated response, and granular visibility for dynamic, ephemeral cloud-native environments, as organizations move away from legacy methods toward loosely coupled, microsegmentation-driven security strategies.
Top Growth Opportunities
Integrate runtime detection and response into CNAPPs, strengthen compatibility with SIEM, SOAR, and cloud provider services, and build open ecosystems to enhance partner collaboration.
Leverage AI-driven capabilities, cross-layer correlation, and intuitive visualizations to boost SecOps efficiency, while investing in market education to raise awareness and accelerate adoption of CNADR, CDR, and ADR solutions.
Collaborate with MSSPs, MSPs, and local CSPs to deliver integrated, region-specific managed and co-managed CARS solutions that meet growing demand for outsourced runtime security.
Embed solutions into MSSPs’ managed threat workflows, including SIEM, SOAR, and ticketing systems, to improve service delivery and customer loyalty.
Adopt a unified platform approach that combines runtime security with shift-left capabilities to deliver holistic protection and meet diverse customer needs.
Integrate CNADR to enhance runtime visibility and active threat management, aligning with both shift-left and shield-right strategies
Download this In-depth Analysis to help your SecOps team move from reactive defense to proactive runtime protection with unified detections, fewer false positives, and faster response across your cloud-native stack.
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