Upwind Placed in Top-Right Quadrant in ISMG’s 2025 CNAPP Market Guide
Recognition highlights Upwind’s runtime-first architecture and strong market presence
ISMG’s 2025 Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) Market Guide places Upwind in the Top-Right Quadrant, identifying the company as one of the fastest-rising vendors in the category. The report evaluates 19 CNAPP providers using ISMG’s Apollo AI workflow engine, which analyzes verified public data sources to produce fact-based vendor profiles.
ISMG highlights Upwind’s runtime-powered CNAPP, which correlates live workload activity with identity, configuration, and vulnerability data to reveal what’s truly exploitable – helping teams eliminate noise and focus on risks that are actually important to the business. Upwind’s hybrid approach combines agentless coverage with lightweight runtime sensors to deliver deeper fidelity without operational friction, enabling more accurate, context-driven risk prioritization.
Why this report matters
ISMG’s 2025 CNAPP Market Guide highlights how leading vendors are:
- Shifting from static scanning to runtime-powered protection based on real-time telemetry
- Correlating misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, identities, and behavior into contextual insights
- Using AI for alert summarization, remediation guidance, and automated policy generation
- Consolidating CSPM, CWPP, CIEM, KSPM, and IaC scanning into unified CNAPP platforms to reduce tool sprawl and noise
- Automating continuous compliance instead of relying on periodic audits
