Runtime Is The Way

The text explores the evolving landscape of cloud security, emphasizing the critical role of runtime protection in safeguarding cloud-native applications. It highlights the initial focus of many security teams on visibility tools, such as Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM), which often fail to address actual threats effectively due to limited insight into compute layers like Kubernetes. The author argues that prioritizing runtime security is a more effective strategy, as it provides actionable insights and defense mechanisms that can directly prevent attacks, unlike CSPMs, which primarily generate alerts for developers to address. The narrative underscores the challenges security teams face in adapting to cloud environments and suggests that integrating runtime protection can empower security professionals to take meaningful action in real-time, ultimately enhancing cloud security outcomes.