2025 Latio cloud security market report

Stop guessing and start securing with Tenable

The new 2025 Latio Cloud Security Market Report reveals where the industry is heading and shares why Tenable is recognized for its hybrid cloud vulnerability management capabilities, distinguishing it as one of three vendors ideal for hybrid cloud solutions.

The report emphasizes Tenable's leadership in the "Hybrid Is the New Cloud" movement, offering unified vulnerability management across cloud and on-premise environments. This positioning is crucial as the cloud security market evolves beyond CNAPP into more specialized categories, with a focus on Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM).

Outgrowing the CNAPP paradigm

• CNAPP is evolving: Discover the three unique categories emerging as the future of cloud security tools—moving beyond the "everything security" platform.
• The big split: Understand why the market is segmenting into specialized areas: application security testing (AST), continuous threat exposure management (CTEM), and cloud application detection & response (CADR).
• Dissatisfaction is growing: Practitioners report high satisfaction with general vulnerability and posture management but express notable dissatisfaction with other tool's application security and workload security capabilities.

The new priorities & emerging capabilities

• Focus on real risk: The industry focus has moved from simple visibility to leveraging runtime insights to prioritize and reduce real, exploitable risks.
• Code-to-cloud is critical: Learn how mapping cloud alerts back to the original code enables superior fix workflows and finding developer asset owners is defining the next generation of security efforts.
• Budgets are shifting: With cloud security programs maturing, over 65% of respondents expect their budgets to remain flat or decrease in 2026, with spending shifting towards AI and security operations.
• Most requested features: See the definitive list of most-desired features, with AI posture management and application detection and response (ADR) topping the list.

Download the full Latio 2025 Cloud Security Market Report today to access full survey results and learn more about why Tenable was named a leader.