The Future of Cloud Security: From CNAPP to CADR — Why ARMO Leads the Next Wave

Oct 22, 2025

Jonathan Kaftzan
VP Marketing

Cloud Security Has Evolved – And It’s Not About Visibility Anymore

The recently published 2025 Latio Cloud Security Market Report, authored by industry analyst James Berthoty, captures a major transformation: cloud security is leaving behind static visibility tools and moving toward runtime-driven risk reduction.

The report traces five years of evolution – from dashboards full of misconfigurations to platforms that can detect, prioritize, and mitigate threats in real time.

Six key insights define this new era:

1. Cloud security has moved from visibility to runtime prioritization — focusing on what’s truly exploitable.
Vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and identities are being analyzed in asset context to assess real risk.
Leading vendors now map alerts back to the code that generated them, streamlining developer workflows.
Security tools are expanding beyond the cloud, covering hybrid and on-prem environments.
SOC teams are gaining application-layer visibility, a missing link in traditional CNAPPs.
Cloud security is integrating with DevSecOps, sending runtime alerts to SOCs and vulnerability findings to developers.

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What Practitioners Are Saying: Fewer Tools, More Real Protection

The report’s global survey of cloud security professionals revealed a consistent theme across organizations of all sizes:

Most teams are satisfied with visibility, but disappointed in workload and application protection.
Budgets are flat for 2026, forcing CISOs to extract more ROI from existing tools.
The average team manages three or more overlapping tools, creating alert fatigue and inefficiency.
The top emerging priorities are AI visibility (65%), Application Detection and Response (53%), and Access Management (47%).

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Beyond CNAPP: The Next Generation of Cloud Security

The report argues that the CNAPP model has reached its limits. While early CNAPPs unified posture, vulnerability, and compliance, they’ve become bloated, overlapping, and noisy.

The future, according to Latio, belongs to three specialized but connected categories:

AST – Application Security Testing: Developer experience, code-to-cloud correlation.
CTEM – Continuous Threat Exposure Management: Unified vulnerability management across hybrid assets.
CADR – Cloud Application Detection & Response: Real-time runtime detection, mitigation, and context.

CADR: From Observability to Action

Cloud Application Detection & Response extends cloud protection beyond infrastructure to the runtime behavior of applications themselves. Rather than focusing only on static configurations, CADR delivers live insight into system calls, process behaviors, and network interactions – exactly where threats unfold.

The report highlights that over 60% of cloud practitioners are most excited about CADR features, marking a clear pivot from prevention to real-time defense.

ARMO: Recognized as Cloud Security Innovator and CADR Leader

The Latio report recognized ARMO as both a Cloud Security Innovator and CADR Leader, positioning it among the select vendors defining the next decade of cloud defense.

Why ARMO Was Selected:

Runtime-First Architecture
From Detection to Smart Remediation
Developer-Friendly Security
Open Source Innovation, Enterprise Scale
Proven Business Impact

Market Shifts: Hybrid, AI, and Runtime Converge

The report identifies three overarching trends that will define cloud security strategy into 2026:

Hybrid Is the New Cloud
AI-Driven Contextualization
Runtime + Posture Fusion

What Security Leaders Should Do Next

The report’s conclusion is direct: organizations that treat runtime as optional will fall behind. To thrive in this new landscape, security teams should:
– Adopt runtime-aware security architectures that detect threats where they occur.
– Integrate developers into the remediation loop with contextual, code-linked insights.
– Unify vulnerability, posture, and runtime programs under continuous exposure management.

The ARMO Advantage: Runtime Security, Simplified

ARMO enables security and DevOps teams to protect cloud workloads from build to runtime with a single, intelligent platform. It unifies visibility, detection, and response across Kubernetes, containers, and cloud infrastructure — delivering protection that’s both deep and developer-friendly.

Final Takeaway: The Future of Cloud Security Is Runtime

The 2025 Latio Cloud Security Market Report confirms what ARMO has long believed: Cloud security’s future lies not in more dashboards, but in runtime-aware defense that turns noise into action.

Where CNAPPs delivered visibility, CADR delivers protection — and ARMO is leading that transformation.

Get the Full Report

Read the complete 2025 Latio Cloud Security Market Report and see why ARMO was named a Cloud Security Innovator and CADR Leader.

👉 Download the 2025 Cloud Security Market Report by Latio