Understanding Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP)
How and Why You Should Secure Your Cloud-Native Applications
A Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) is a type of cloud security architecture designed to protect and secure cloud applications throughout your entire software development lifecycle, from development through production and workload. As organizations adopt more cloud-native applications and services throughout their enterprises, it’s critical to ensure teams have effective visibility into cloud-based environments with earlier detection of cloud-based risks. That’s why a growing number of organizations are integrating a CNAPP into their overall security strategy.
In this CNAPP knowledgebase, we take a closer look at what a cloud-native application platform is and how it can help your teams discover software flaws, vulnerabilities, misconfigurations and other security issues throughout your entire development process, shoring up your dynamic cloud environment while building confidence in your organization’s overall cybersecurity posture.
Here’s what you’ll discover:
What is CNAPP and Why is it Important?
A cloud-native application protection platform provides increased visibility into cloud risks.
Learn MoreThe Four Phases of Cloud Maturity
There's no one-size-fits-all approach to cloud security, but four core components can help decrease risks.
Learn MoreFrequently Asked CNAPP Questions
Check out this FAQ for common questions and relevant answers about what a CNAPP is and what it does.
Learn MoreBenefits of CNAPP Adoption
Tenable Cloud Security is a CNAPP that gives your complete visibility into your cloud-native environment for security.
Learn MoreTenable Community for CNAPP
Tenable Community is a great place to talk about cloud-native security, ask questions, and share tips.
Learn MoreSecure Your Cloud-Native Environments
From build time to run-time some best practices can help build confidence in your approach to cloud security.
Learn MoreDevelop and Expand Your Cloud With Confidence
Securing Your Cloud Environments Has Never Been Easier
With Tenable Cloud Security, you can secure every step of your cloud environment, from code to cloud, all within a developer-friendly cloud-native application platform. Secure all of your cloud resources, container images and cloud assets to mature your cloud security posture today and as your cloud work environments evolve and become more complex.
Enterprise Guide to Policy as Code: Design, Build, and Run-time
As your organization continues to adopt more cloud-native applications and build onto your existing cloud-native architecture, security becomes increasingly complex. Many organizations struggle shifting their legacy on-premises security practices to a cloud-native environment. But, the reality is traditional security approaches just don’t work for the dynamic nature of your cloud workload.
Now is the time to shift left and adopt security best practices meant for protecting your cloud and hybrid cloud/on-premises environments. It’s important these processes aren’t applied well-after cloud development and deployment. Instead, true security starts in the earliest planning phases and should be included throughout your software development lifecycle (SDLC) and into run-time.
With Tenable, you can adopt policy as code and infrastructure as code (IaC) to help secure and mature your modern cloud environments.
Extending Vulnerability Management from Code to Cloud
Cloud workloads are complex and dynamic, and they continuously introduce new risks into your environment. On top of that, legacy vulnerability management approaches don’t work well for cloud, making it challenging for some teams to keep up with those risks. However, it is necessary to move beyond those legacy practices and extend continuous vulnerability management into the cloud. This is more than just discovering and fixing vulnerabilities, but also includes finding and remediating software flaws and misconfigurations across your entire software development lifecycle. In this ebook, learn more about how adopting a cloud security posture management (CSPM) solution can help ensure confidence that you’ve built in security throughout your entire development process.
Tenable’s Cloud-Native Application Platform
Tenable Cloud Security is a CNAPP solution that can help you secure your cloud environments throughout your entire SDLC. From infrastructure as code to container security and everything in between, now is the time to shift left to secure your vulnerable cloud workload from build to run-time. With Tenable Cloud Security CNAPP, your organization can maintain a secure posture in run-time and control drift with synchronized configuration between run-time and IaC. Explore this data sheet to learn more about the power and ease-of-use of Tenable Cloud Security to help your organization discover and remediate vulnerabilities as early as in development, get remediation suggested delivered right to your developers, enforce policy consistency and build a bridge between your security and DevOps teams. Learn more about how to get unified visibility across the cloud.
Seven Habits of Highly Effective DevSecOps Teams
Modern DevOps consist of an integrated team of operational, security and development professionals, who collaborate to ensure your cloud environments are secure. Unfortunately, some organizations struggle to build these teams in a way they work together most effectively, especially when faced with the complex and dynamic nature of the cloud. While there is no magic formula for success, there are seven core habits every DevOps team can work toward to ensure they’re prepared to face all challenges that exist within a dynamic cloud environment. These core competencies include the technical, cultural and organizational habits to ensure your teams can effectively manage cloud security, compliance and operational risks. Check out this white paper to learn more about these habits and how to apply them to your teams.
Tenable Community: Your Comprehensive
CNAPP Resource for Dynamic Cloud Security
Tenable Community is your one-stop resource for all things related to CNAPP and your dynamic cloud environments. Whether you have questions for other cloud security professionals or you’re looking to take a deeper dive into how Tenable can help you solve all of your cloud-native application security needs, Tenable Community is the place to be.
Here are some sample conversations happening now:
Tenable Launches Suite of New Product Features to Deliver Full Lifecycle Cloud-Native Security
Tenable Cloud Security is a cloud-native application protection platform that helps organizations more efficiently and effectively secure their cloud resources, container images and other cloud assets. This CNAPP can help your organization provide end-to-end security, from cloud to workload, even in the most dynamic cloud environments. With Tenable Cloud Security you can integrate security throughout your entire SDLC.
Read MoreAuditing Kubernetes for Secure Configurations
Container security is an important component of enterprise security, especially in light of the growing number of containerized applications many organizations now use. As adoption has increased, so has the need for a resource to manage containerized applications such as Kubernetes. Kubernetes is an open-source orchestration platform for deploying, maintaining and scaling containerized apps.
Read MoreHow to Choose a Modern CSPM Tool to Reduce Your Cloud Infrastructure Risk
Cloud security posture management (CSPM) solutions are a necessary part of modern cloud security. CSPM solutions can help your team find and fix misconfigurations within a public cloud, from code to run-time. CSPM tools aid your team in discovering and fixing software flaws, misconfigurations, and vulnerabilities, identity compromises and other security issues in a cloud-native environment.
Read MoreApplication Security from Build Time to Run-Time
Effective cloud-native application security requires a shift left from legacy vulnerability management practices to a risk-based approach that utilizes security best practices developed specifically to manage the dynamic and complex nature of cloud environments. While every organization will have a range of unique factors that directly affect cloud security approaches and maturity, here are six recommended practices to ensure your cloud-native applications are secure from development to deployment and beyond.
Identify flaws in Infrastructure as Code by integrating into the IDE and pipeline.
Assess Infrastructure as Code on commit or merge requests.
Integrate into the CI/CD pipeline to identify flaws in containers and third-party libraries before deployment.
Continuously scan and assess Kubernetes and your cloud infrastructure to identify drift.
Identify flaws in running containers and compute instances without the need to deploy scanners or install agents.
Merge critical ad hoc changes and required remediation steps back into build.
Frequently Asked Questions about CNAPP
Want to learn more about cloud-native application protection platforms? Do you have questions about CNAPP, but not sure where to start? This CNAPP FAQ has your answers:
What is a cloud-native application protection platform?
What does CNAPP mean?
What does cloud-native mean?
Is cloud-native safe?
What is a cloud-native application?
What are some core components of cloud-native security?
How do you secure cloud-native environments?
What is a CNSP?
What are some challenges for CNAPP security?
What should I look for when seeking the right CNAPP for my organization?
Does legacy vulnerability management work for cloud-native environments?
What is a container?
What is container as a service (CaaS)?
What is policy as code?
What is infrastructure as code?
What is cloud security posture management (CSPM)?
What is a cloud workload protection platform (CWPP)?
What is a cloud access security broker (CASB)?
What is Kubernetes?
What is Kubernetes Security Posture Management (KSPM)?
What is a cloud security provider (CSP)?
What is a software development lifecycle (SDLC)?
What is run-time?
Why is it important to integrate a CNAPP into your SDLC?
Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) Blog Bytes
CNAPP: What Is It and Why Is It Important for Security Leaders?
There are several benefits in using a cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP). A CNAPP can give your organization increased visibility and insight into your cloud application security risks, help you improve compatibility, detect and remediate security issues sooner, and automate security into your CI/CD pipelines. Read this blog to learn more about how a CNAPP can help you better secure your cloud environments, from code to cloud.
Manage and Remediate Cloud Infrastructure Misconfiguration Vulnerabilities
Organizations of all sizes are facing a growing number of cloud security breaches and many aren’t prepared to protect against them or ready to stop an attack once it's underway. A common attack vector within cloud environments is caused by missed, and often preventable, misconfigurations. But there is a way to secure your highly dynamic cloud environments and secure your cloud applications before they’re released into product. Read this blog to see how.
Security Defined As Code: What is IaC and Why Does It Matter to CISOs?
Infrastructure as code (IaC) is more than a catchphrase in cybersecurity. It’s a critical component in securing your evolving and dynamic cloud environments. With IaC, you can scale faster, with more consistency and confidence in the security of your cloud-native applications. By understanding how IaC works, you can deploy best practices within your organization and align your security and business goals. This blog explains what IaC is and what it solves.
CNAPP and Cloud Security On-Demand
The Four Phases of Cloud Security Maturity. Where are You Today, Where is the Business Heading Tomorrow?
Organizations of all sizes are rapidly increasing their cloud footprint with the adoption and implementation of a growing number of cloud-based applications and services. While there is no one-size-fits-all approach for all teams, there are four key phases of cloud security maturity that can help move every unique team toward cloud security success. This webinar is great for all team members who are responsible for cloud security, including DevOps teams. Explore this webinar to learn more about how to:
- Determine where your organization is with cloud maturity.
- Identify key challenges for each of the four stages of cloud maturity.
- Seamlessly integrate security controls from development to production.
How to Show Business Benefit by Moving to Risk-Based Vulnerability Management
Legacy vulnerability management practices just don’t work well in modern, dynamic and complex cloud-native environments. That’s why it’s ever-more important for security teams to shift away from those legacy methods and adopt a risk-based vulnerability management program, one that incorporates accurate asset inventory and security risk identification across the entire enterprise, including cloud environments. In this on-demand webinar from Tenable and the SANS institute, you can learn more about how to:
- Conduct a gap analysis based on best practices for risk-based vulnerability management.
- Establish criteria selection to evaluate CNAPP products and vendors.
- Draw on lessons learned to reduce mitigation time and increase business benefit.
Secure Every Step From Code to Cloud
Cloud-native applications are changing the way organizations do business. They’re also creating new challenges for enterprise cloud security. Those trying to fit legacy vulnerability management practices into cloud security functions may inadvertently introduce or miss new risks in your environment. Tenable’s CNAPP is a great tool to help your teams shift left and develop a more effective roadmap for cloud-native security.
Watch this on-demand webinar to learn how Tenable Cloud Security can:
- Programmatically detect and fix cloud misconfigurations throughout your entire SDLC.
- Prevent unresolved insecure configuration or exploitable vulnerabilities from reaching production.
- Secure your cloud environment from build to run-time.
Develop and Strengthen Your DevSecOps Practices With Cloud Security as Code
Cloud-native environments are increasingly dynamic and complex, and legacy security practices leave your organization vulnerable to breaches and other security weaknesses and misconfigurations that increase your cyber exposure.
Tenable’s CNAPP, Tenable Cloud Security, gives you complete cloud visibility so you can continuously discover and assess your cloud-native applications for security issues, all without installing agents or other tedious legacy security processes. Instead, with Tenable Cloud Security you have complete visibility into your cloud-native environment so you can quickly identify and remediate security issues, even as your cloud environment constantly changes. It’s about security from build-time to run-time.
With Tenable Cloud Security you can mature your cloud-native security practices with:
- Policy as code for continuous assessments
- Governance as code for automated governance
- Drift as code for continuous detection
- Security as code for advanced security
- Remediation as code for automated remediation to find and fix security weaknesses
Try Tenable Cloud Security for Free
If your security starts after your cloud-native applications are deployed, then you’re already at risk. Now is the time to integrate cloud security into your software development lifecycle with integrated security through every step. Change the way you approach cloud security with Tenable Cloud Security, full-stack cloud-native security, from code to cloud deployment.
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