Microsoft named a Leader in the Frost Radar™: Cloud Workload Protection Platforms, 2026

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Security teams are overwhelmed with findings but still struggle to answer a simple question: which risks matter right now? A vulnerability alone is rarely the problem. The same vulnerability running in production, exposed through a misconfiguration or over-permissioned identity, is a real path to compromise. Organizations do not need longer lists of alerts. They need context that connects code, cloud resources, identities, and runtime activity so they can prioritize the issues that pose the greatest risk and stop cyberthreats before they reach production.

As organizations adopt cloud-native architectures at scale, protecting workloads requires more than scanning. Today, 82% of container users run Kubernetes in production, making runtime visibility and protection critical for modern applications.1

That change, from scanning workloads to protecting them where they run, is exactly what Frost & Sullivan describes in its Frost Radar™: Cloud Workload Protection Platforms, 2026. Out of more than 45 qualified vendors, it benchmarked 20, and it found the category moving to a single runtime security model, one that ties together code, cloud, runtime, identity, and the security operations center (SOC).

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Within that market, Frost & Sullivan names Microsoft a visionary leader, its category for vendors that balance innovation with growth and help set the direction of the market. Microsoft is also the largest cloud workload protection platform (CWPP) provider by revenue, with an estimated share of more than 22% of the global CWPP market. In the …

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