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2025 Gartner® Market Guide for Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP)

 

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Expert Insights for CNAPP Vendors

Gartner®’s Market View

Gartner® defines Cloud-native application protection platforms (CNAPPs) as "unified and tightly integrated set of security and compliance capabilities, designed to protect cloud-native infrastructure and applications."

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The Future of Cloud Security and Operations in 2029

60%

Lack Cloud Visibility
Enterprises without a unified CNAPP will struggle to secure their cloud attack surface and meet zero-trust goals.

80%

Platform Engineering Shift
Most enterprises will centralize platform engineering to scale DevOps, up from less than 30% in 2023.

35%

Containerized Workloads
Over a third of enterprise applications will run in containers, more than doubling since 2023.

Our Key Takeaways
from the Report/Market Guide

Mandatory Capabilities

To be considered a complete CNAPP, solutions must deliver broad cloud integrations, core security capabilities (CSPM, CIEM, CWPP), compliance coverage, and support for both agent-based and agentless deployments across multicloud environments.

Emerging Trends

AI-driven remediation, app/data security convergence, and graph-based insights are reshaping CNAPP.Remediation is now essential; vendors must go beyond alerts with contextual, integrated workflows.

Market Challenges (Vendor Opportunities)

Vendors face challenges with integration, tool sprawl, and developer adoption, but those who deliver unified, flexible, and low-friction CNAPP solutions have a clear advantage.

Mandatory Capabilities
Emerging Trends
Market Challenges (Vendor Opportunities)

Our Key Takeaways
from the Report/Market Guide

Mandatory Capabilities

To be considered a complete CNAPP, solutions must deliver broad cloud integrations, core security capabilities (CSPM, CIEM, CWPP), compliance coverage, and support for both agent-based and agentless deployments across multicloud environments.

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Emerging Trends

AI-driven remediation, app/data security convergence, and graph-based insights are reshaping CNAPP.Remediation is now essential; vendors must go beyond alerts with contextual, integrated workflows.

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Market Challenges (Vendor Opportunities)

Vendors face challenges with integration, tool sprawl, and developer adoption, but those who deliver unified, flexible, and low-friction CNAPP solutions have a clear advantage.

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Key CNAPP Drivers

Consolidation and Integration
Consolidation and Integration

Enterprises are replacing fragmented tools with unified platforms that combine CSPM, CWPP, CIEM, IaC scanning, and DevSecOps features.

Developer-Centric Security
Developer-Centric Security

Shift-left practices – like IaC scanning, CI/CD integration, and developer-friendly workflows – are essential for adoption.

Cloud Runtime Context
Cloud Runtime Context

Real-time insight into workload behavior across VMs, containers, and serverless environments enables precise prioritization and fast remediation.

Risk Correlation and Prioritization
Risk Correlation and Prioritization

Buyers want unified risk visibility and attack-path context across code, config, identity, and runtime – not just siloed alerts.

Unified Risk Visibility
Unified Risk Visibility

Customers want attack-path-style insights and consolidated risk views that correlate across code, config, identity, and runtime environments.

Flexible Deployment Options
Flexible Deployment Options

Support for multicloud, hybrid, agent-based, and agentless environments ensures CNAPPs can adapt to any enterprise architecture.

Gartner forecasts that, by 2029, “60% of enterprises that do not deploy a unified CNAPP solution within their cloud architecture will lack extensive visibility into the cloud attack surface and consequently fail to achieve their desired zero-trust goals.”

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Gartner, Market Guide for Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP), 22 July 2024, Dale Koeppen, Charlie Winckless, Neil MacDonald, Esraa ElTahawy

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Gartner, Market Guide for Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP), 5 August 2025, Dale Koeppen, Esraa ElTahawy, Neil MacDonald

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