Gartner defines a Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) as:
“An integrated set of security and compliance capabilities designed to help secure and protect cloud-native applications across development and production. CNAPPs consolidate a large number of previously siloed capabilities, including container scanning, cloud security posture management, infrastructure as code scanning, cloud infrastructure entitlements management and runtime cloud workload protection platforms.”
How to Protect Your Clouds With CSPM, CWPP, CNAPP and CASB | Gartner, 2021
Holistic protection for your infrastructure
There are any number of platforms that offer various different vendor-specific solutions. It’s important to choose a platform that meets the specific needs of your organization's business, which in terms of multi and hybrid cloud environments means coverage of multiple vendors and technologies, and monitoring the environment via a single-platform view. This holistic view enables organizations to effectively secure and protect cloud-native applications, and remove siloes between the large number of monitoring tools that an organization might be using to cover all aspects of its infrastructure.