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Cloud Security

Cloud security posture management, workload protection, and container/Kubernetes security.

20 companies ranked by Innovation Matrix score.

87 /100

Wiz

Agentless, graph-based cloud security platform that maps multi-cloud risk end-to-end, now owned by Google after a record $32B…

Transformational Innovator Cloud Security
83 /100

Chainguard

Provides hardened, minimal, continuously-rebuilt container images and software packages to eliminate vulnerabilities before they reach production.

Meaningful Innovator Cloud Security
75 /100

Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Microsoft's built-in cloud-native application protection platform, unifying CSPM, workload protection, and DevOps security natively across Azure, AWS, and…

Meaningful Innovator Cloud Security
75 /100

Sysdig

The company behind Falco, the CNCF's runtime security standard, offering an eBPF/kernel-level CNAPP built on live syscall-based threat…

Meaningful Innovator Cloud Security
73 /100

Upwind Security

Fast-growing, venture-backed CNAPP startup combining agentless scanning with eBPF runtime sensors for real-time cloud and AI workload risk…

Meaningful Innovator Cloud Security
73 /100

Tenable Cloud Security

An agentless, graph-based cloud identity and posture platform, born as Israeli startup Ermetic, now folded into Tenable's exposure-management…

Meaningful Innovator Cloud Security
72 /100

Datadog Cloud Security Management

Cloud security module embedded in Datadog's observability platform, correlating posture, identity risk, and workload telemetry via a shared…

Meaningful Innovator Cloud Security
72 /100

CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security

Hybrid agent/agentless cloud security module inside CrowdStrike's Falcon platform, pairing posture management with endpoint-grade runtime detection.

Meaningful Innovator Cloud Security
70 /100

Orca Security

Agentless cloud security platform built on patented SideScanning technology, an early co-pioneer of the agentless CNAPP category alongside…

Meaningful Innovator Cloud Security
70 /100

Cast AI

Automates Kubernetes cost optimization and security posture management, continuously right-sizing and hardening clusters without manual tuning.

Meaningful Innovator Cloud Security
67 /100

Palo Alto Networks Prisma Cloud

Code-to-runtime CNAPP from Palo Alto Networks, built through acquisitions and now being merged into the AI-driven Cortex Cloud…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
65 /100

Sweet Security

Israeli startup providing runtime-based cloud detection and response (CADR) plus AI agent security, layered on top of traditional…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
63 /100

Uptycs

AI-native CNAPP unifying CSPM, CWPP, CIEM, and XDR on a single eBPF-based telemetry and data model, agentless plus…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
62 /100

Lacework (FortiCNAPP, a Fortinet company)

Once an $8B-plus unicorn built on behavioral cloud anomaly detection, Lacework is now Fortinet's CNAPP (branded FortiCNAPP) after…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
60 /100

Aqua Security

Container and Kubernetes-native cloud security pioneer combining commercial CNAPP tooling with the widely used open-source Trivy scanner.

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
57 /100

Trend Micro (Trend Vision One – Cloud Security)

A veteran Japanese security vendor whose Trend Vision One platform bundles cloud posture management, workload, and container protection…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
57 /100

Skyhawk Security

Cloud detection and response vendor using simulated 'digital twin' attack modeling to prioritize which cloud vulnerabilities are actually…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
55 /100

Qualys TotalCloud

Public vulnerability-management incumbent's CNAPP, unifying agentless cloud scanning with its long-standing Cloud Agent and TruRisk platform.

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
53 /100

Rapid7 InsightCloudSec

Agentless, real-time multi-cloud CSPM/CIEM/KSPM platform from public vendor Rapid7, built on its 2020 acquisition of DivvyCloud.

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
52 /100

Check Point CloudGuard

Cloud security suite from veteran network-security vendor Check Point, bundling CNAPP posture management, WAF and multi-cloud network protection.

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security