From Seeing Risks to Preventing Them
CNAPP brought posture, workload and identity into an integrated operating model, giving security teams a clearer way to see and prioritize cloud risk. Modern cloud environments have outgrown that model.
In their landmark paper, Agentic Cloud Security Platforms: The Shift to Runtime Security, Software Analyst Cyber Research (SACR) demonstrates how the limits of CNAPP are architectural. The security problem in AI-era environments no longer begins and ends with visibility and remediation.
Cloud Security Must Move Closer to Runtime
SACR argues that security platforms must understand live execution in context, determine whether a behavior should be allowed to continue and convert context into precise stopping-power. Their paper gives security leaders and practitioners the architectural clarity to act on that shift.
What you'll take away:
- Why the traditional CNAPP can't close the gap between observation and governed action.
- A framework for separating theoretical exposure from active risk.
- Seven capability pillars of AI-native workload protection.
- A practitioner verdict on where the market is headed.