The era of “good enough” security is over. Attackers move at machine speed, combining automation and AI to turn weaknesses into breaches in seconds. Static, snapshot-based defenses simply can’t keep up.

To close the gap, cloud security must evolve. It demands a new standard, one that’s real-time and runtime-aware, guided by AI, flexible enough to fit any environment, and built to help teams collaborate effectively.

When these core elements come together, you get cloud security the right way:

• Focus on real risk, not theoretical noise
• See what’s running, not just what’s configured
• Give teams clarity, control, and context – not complexity

This year’s Latio Tech Cloud Security Market Report explores how the industry is shifting in the direction of this new standard, naming Sysdig a Cloud Security Leader for exemplifying this approach. Below, we’ll highlight three key insights from the report, and then show why Sysdig leads the CNAPP category.

Highlights from the Latio Tech report

Cloud security is moving fast, and Latio Tech’s report captures how this vision is taking shape across the industry. The report shows a clear shift from static visibility to continuous action, as organizations look to scale cloud security and optimize their security programs. 

Three key trends stand out:

• Runtime context is now the difference-maker. The market has moved past “just seeing everything” toward using runtime insights to reduce real risk, prioritizing what’s actually exploitable and in-use.
• CNAPP is stretching beyond the cloud. Vendors are racing to support hybrid environments with unified vulnerability management and reporting one program across clouds and on-prem.
• Right signal, right team. Mature programs route runtime alerts to the SOC while sending vulnerability work to developer workflows, ensuring issues move swiftly from detection to resolution.

These findings show that cloud security leaders are looking to unite visibility, context, and collaboration to drive faster, more meaningful outcomes. We’re seeing this shift play out every day with our customers, and it continues to shape how we build and innovate.

Why Sysdig belongs in the CNAPP leader conversation

Named a Cloud Security Leader in the Latio Tech Cloud Security Market Report, Sysdig exemplifies the qualities that define leadership in this category. The report includes a dedicated callout on Sysdig that captures what our customers already know: open innovation, agentic AI, and deep runtime insights are the right foundation for modern cloud defense (see the Sysdig spotlight on page 47). Sysdig’s approach aligns directly with the report’s themes: turning runtime context into action, flexibility across environments, and empowering teams to close the gap between detection and response.

1. Open innovation

Security teams can’t trust what they can’t see. Sysdig has roots in open source through Falco, the CNCF-graduated runtime detection engine. That means transparent rules, community-hardened detections, and the freedom to tune logic to your specific environment. Open detection accelerates response and builds shared trust across security, platform, and compliance teams.

2. Agentic AI

Most “AI for security” stops at summarization. Sysdig Sage™ goes further, interpreting live runtime signals, correlating context and findings, and guiding users toward the best action with transparent reasoning. Fully integrated into the Sysdig platform, Sysdig Sage delivers specific, environment-aware recommendations that help teams respond with confidence.

3. Runtime insights

When an attack unfolds in seconds, the only signal that matters is what’s actually executing. Sysdig collects deep telemetry from the OS kernel through Kubernetes, serverless, and cloud control planes, correlating it with other risk signals like vulnerabilities and identity relationships. The result is high-fidelity detection, deeper insights, and more actionable decisions through understanding of business critical context. 

How Sysdig delivers cloud security, the right way

The Latio Tech report highlights what effective cloud security looks like in practice, and how Sysdig brings that vision to life. Built on open innovation, runtime context, and agentic AI, Sysdig helps teams focus on what matters, act in real time, and collaborate without friction. Here’s how our approach aligns with the blueprint for cloud security done right

• Focus on what matters, in context. Sysdig prioritizes active risk by leveraging runtime insights to understand what’s happening now. Teams can immediately see which vulnerable packages are actually running, which identities are in use, and which threats are active. With runtime as the filter, Sysdig shows which risks need to be addressed immediately instead of just surfacing thousands of alerts. 
• Detect and respond when it counts. Periodic scans and stale graphs don’t catch active threats, like container drift or lateral movement. Sysdig’s real-time detection, combined with Sysdig Sage’s guided reasoning, helps teams respond in minutes. Users can isolate or shut down the container, capture a snapshot for forensics, alert the right team, and contain the blast radius fast.
• Empower builders, not block them. Developers get clarity: why this vulnerability matters to their service, and how to fix it. Findings flow into the right workflows (SOC for runtime, dev for vulns) so the right people can act quickly with shared context.
• Design for transparency. Open, flexible rules and transparent AI replace opaque black-box scoring. Rooted in open source Falco, Sysdig helps teams move quickly, while maintaining trust with engineering, auditors, and leadership.
• Built for cloud native. Modern environments are hybrid and ephemeral. Sysdig delivers real-time visibility across containers, Kubernetes, cloud services, VMs, and serverless, giving teams a single, consistent view across every environment.

Implications for CNAPP decision makers

The Latio Tech Cloud Security Market Report makes it clear: the future of cloud security belongs to platforms that can turn visibility into action. Leaders are prioritizing runtime-first risk reduction, hybrid coverage, and role-aligned workflows that accelerate collaboration and outcomes.

With an open source foundation, agentic AI, and deep runtime telemetry, Sysdig makes alerts actionable, investigations faster, and response simpler. Built on live runtime understanding, open defenses you can tune, and AI that helps teams decide and act, Sysdig brings cloud security the right way to life.

Ready to see cloud security, the right way?
Cloud security’s future isn’t about bigger dashboards, it’s about faster truth. See how Sysdig translates runtime clarity into outcomes your SOC, developers, and leadership can trust.

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