McAfee MVISION Cloud Native Application Protection Platform Now Generally Available

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McAfee has launched the MVISION Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP), designed to enhance security for cloud-native applications. This platform integrates Cloud Security Posture Management and Cloud Workload Protection, ensuring comprehensive data protection and threat prevention. Key features include deep discovery of workloads, automated assessments, and in-tenant data loss prevention. The launch responds to enterprises' needs for simplified security amidst increasing cloud adoption, helping them reduce complexity and costs associated with separate security solutions.

Positive

• Launch of the industry’s first integrated platform for cloud-native application security.
• Comprehensive features including deep discovery and automated assessment enhance security capabilities.
• Addresses the growing demand for consolidated cloud security solutions, as indicated by 73% of organizations preferring integrated platforms.

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• None.

McAfee today announced the general availability of McAfee MVISION Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP), a new security service designed to secure cloud native applications. MVISION CNAPP delivers consistent data protection, threat prevention, governance, and compliance throughout the cloud-native application development lifecycle for container and OS-based workloads.

MVISION Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (Graphic: Business Wire)

To accelerate their digital transformation journey, enterprises are leveraging the agility and innovation velocity offered by cloud-native applications hosted across private, public and hybrid clouds. Enterprises also want to unleash their developer talent to build and deploy secure applications. To do so, these enterprises need a comprehensive security platform with a simplified architecture; one that enables them to reduce the cost and complexity of point security products.

“Enterprise cybersecurity programs need to evolve to secure a growing footprint of cloud-native applications and infrastructure, a sentiment shared by 88 percent of respondents who participated in research recently completed by ESG,” said Doug Cahill, vice president and group director of ESG’s cybersecurity practice. “To do so, 73 percent of organizations cited a preference for a consolidated set of the controls based on an integrated platform for breadth of coverage and depth of functionality.”

McAfee MVISION CNAPP is the industry’s first platform that brings application and data context to converge Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) for public cloud infrastructure, and Cloud Workload Protection Platform (CWPP) to protect applications distributed across virtual machines, compute instances and containers. MVISION CNAPP provides five key capabilities:

1. Deep Discovery: MVISION CNAPP provides frictionless deep discovery of all workloads, data, and infrastructure, prioritize security risk, based on misconfigurations, software vulnerabilities and sensitive data.
2. Shift Left: MVISION CNAPP protects against configuration drift and provides automated assessment across virtual machines, containers, and developer pipelines.
3. Workload Protection: MVISION CNAPP introduces a new light weight agent to support ephemeral workloads. Includes application allow listing, workload hardening, integrity monitoring, and detection of anomalous behavior to access true application risk.
4. In-tenant Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Scanning: MVISION CNAPP enables local scan of data without the need for enterprises to move data outside their tenant, facilitating cost optimization, increased security, and data privacy.
5. MITRE ATT&CK Framework for Cloud: MVISION CNAPP empowers the Security Operations Center (SOC) by mapping cloud native threats to the MITRE ATT&CK Framework for Cloud.

“Enterprises want to leverage the innovation and velocity offered by the public cloud, in conjunction with their private data centers, while enabling a consistent security posture,” said Shishir Singh, chief product officer, McAfee. “Now generally available, MVISION CNAPP delivers an integrated platform to secure modern cloud native applications to accelerate enterprise digital transformation journey.”

“Legendary Entertainment is a cloud-first organization leveraging the public cloud,” said Dan Meacham, vice president, Global Security, for Legendary Entertainment. “We harness the power of the public cloud and cloud-native applications as we collaborate across the world, while minimizing the security risk. We prefer a single unified security platform to implementing separate point products for each security capability required. MVISION CNAPP provides security teams deep insight into service configurations for our multi-cloud usage, industry benchmarks to better assess our data and application security risk, as well as provide an integrated workload protection tool to improve security across our entire application lifecycle.”

For more information, register for McAfee’s webinar titled, “ESG Top Trends: How to Secure Cloud Native Applications,” which will take place today at 11:00 AM PT.

Additional Resources:

• MVISION CNAPP Website
• Solution Brief
• Voice of the Customer Video: How Electronic Arts Secures their Cloud with MVISION CNAPP

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FAQ

What is McAfee MVISION CNAPP?

McAfee MVISION CNAPP is a security platform designed to protect cloud-native applications by integrating Cloud Security Posture Management and Cloud Workload Protection.

How does MVISION CNAPP enhance cloud security?

It provides features like deep discovery, automated assessments, and in-tenant data loss prevention, helping enterprises secure their cloud-native applications.

What percentage of organizations prefer an integrated security platform?

73% of organizations prefer a consolidated security solution based on an integrated platform for better coverage and functionality.

When was MVISION CNAPP launched?

McAfee announced the general availability of MVISION CNAPP today.

What key capabilities does MVISION CNAPP offer?

It offers deep discovery, workload protection, configuration drift protection, in-tenant DLP scanning, and mapping of cloud threats to the MITRE ATT&CK Framework.