A Comprehensive, Single vendor CNAPP solution and its Capabilities in 2023

Andre Camillo, CISSP
Microsoft Azure
Published in
4 min readFeb 14, 2024

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I’ve spoken about Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform more than a year ago when Gartner announced their new “solution” term. Have a read at that here: The all in-one Cloud Security Solution CNAPP — according to Gartner | by Andre Camillo | Geek Culture | Medium

Since then, many vendors have worked and started delivering on this new “market”. Only one of these vendors, however, can fill in the promise with almost 100% coverage of Gartner’s definition.

Let’s discuss how Microsoft delivers CNAPP in 2023.

Back to the basics

This is CNAPP as defined by Gartner, and this is just a recap:

source: Gartner, image from this article.

In essence, CNAPP is a lot , much like what it aims to protect — “Cloud Infrastructure”. CNAPP looks at DevOps, Cloud configuration and Protection capabilities.

Given its width and breadth, you won't find many vendors that can offer all capabilities alone.

CNActuality

As comprehensively explained by my colleague Vik in his article “CNAPP Deconstructed” the capabilities…

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Andre Camillo, CISSP
Microsoft Azure

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