Best Cloud Workload Protection Platforms for Freelancers
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What are Cloud Workload Protection Platforms for Freelancers?
Cloud workload protection platforms enable organizations to secure servers, virtual machines, and cloud-based infrastructure from attacks and threats from the web and across private, public, and hybrid clouds. Compare and read user reviews of the best Cloud Workload Protection platforms for Freelancers currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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Orca Security
Orca Security
Designed for organizations operating in the cloud who need complete, centralized visibility of their entire cloud estate and want more time and resources dedicated to remediating the actual risks that matter, Orca Security is an agentless cloud Security Platform that provides security teams with 100% coverage their entire cloud environment. Instead of layering multiple siloed tools together or deploying cumbersome agents, Orca combines two revolutionary approaches - SideScanning, that enables frictionless and complete coverage without the need to maintain agents, and the Unified Data Model, that allows centralized contextual analysis of your entire cloud estate. Together, Orca has created the most comprehensive cloud security platform available on the marketplace. -
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Wiz
Wiz
Wiz is a new approach to cloud security that finds the most critical risks and infiltration vectors with complete coverage across the full stack of multi-cloud environments. Find all lateral movement risks such as private keys used to access both development and production environments. Scan for vulnerable and unpatched operating systems, installed software, and code libraries in your workloads prioritized by risk. Get a complete and up-to-date inventory of all services and software in your cloud environments including the version and package. Identify all keys located on your workloads cross referenced with the privileges they have in your cloud environment. See which resources are publicly exposed to the internet based on a full analysis of your cloud network, even those behind multiple hops. Assess the configuration of cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, and VM operating systems against your baselines and industry best practices.Starting Price: Request Pricing -
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Kasm Workspaces
Kasm Technologies
Kasm Workspaces streams your workplace environment directly to your web browser…on any device and from any location. Kasm uses our high-performance streaming and secure isolation technology to provide web-native Desktop as a Service (DaaS), application streaming, and secure/private web browsing. Kasm is not just a service; it is a highly configurable platform with a robust developer API and devops-enabled workflows that can be customized for your use-case, at any scale. Workspaces can be deployed in the cloud (Public or Private), on-premise (Including Air-Gapped Networks or your Homelab), or in a hybrid configuration.Starting Price: $0 Free Community Edition -
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SentinelOne Singularity
SentinelOne
One intelligent platform. Unprecedented speed. Infinite scale. Singularity™ enables unfettered visibility, industry-leading detection, and autonomous response. Discover the power of AI-powered, enterprise-wide cybersecurity. The world’s leading enterprises use the Singularity platform to prevent, detect, and respond to cyber attacks at machine-speed, greater scale, and higher accuracy across endpoint, cloud, and identity. SentinelOne delivers cutting-edge security with this platform by offering protection against malware, exploits, and scripts. SentinelOne cloud-based platform has been perfected to be innovative compliant with security industry standards, and high-performance whether the work environment is Windows, Mac or Linux. Thanks to constant updating, threat hunting, and behavior AI, the platform is ready for any threat.Starting Price: $45 per user per year -
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CrowdStrike Falcon
CrowdStrike
CrowdStrike Falcon is a cloud-native cybersecurity platform that provides advanced protection against a wide range of cyber threats, including malware, ransomware, and sophisticated attacks. It leverages artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to detect and respond to threats in real time, offering endpoint protection, threat intelligence, and incident response capabilities. The platform uses a lightweight agent that continuously monitors endpoints for signs of malicious activity, providing visibility and protection without significant impact on system performance. Falcon’s cloud-based architecture ensures fast updates, scalability, and rapid threat response across large, distributed environments. Its comprehensive security features help organizations prevent, detect, and mitigate potential cyber risks, making it a powerful tool for modern enterprise cybersecurity. -
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Trend Vision One
Trend Micro
Stopping adversaries faster and taking control of your cyber risks starts with a single platform. Manage security holistically with comprehensive prevention, detection, and response capabilities powered by AI, leading threat research and intelligence. Trend Vision One supports diverse hybrid IT environments, automates and orchestrates workflows, and delivers expert cybersecurity services, so you can simplify and converge your security operations. The growing attack surface is challenging. Trend Vision One brings comprehensive security to your environment to monitor, secure, and support. Siloed tools create security gaps. Trend Vision One serves teams with these robust capabilities for prevention, detection, and response. Understanding risk exposure is a priority. Leveraging internal and external data sources across the Trend Vision One ecosystem enables greater command of your attack surface risk. Minimize breaches or attacks with deeper insight across key risk factors. -
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Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Microsoft
Microsoft Defender for Cloud is a solution for cloud security posture management (CSPM) and cloud workload protection (CWP) that finds weak spots across your cloud configuration, helps strengthen the overall security posture of your environment, and can protect workloads across multicloud and hybrid environments from evolving threats. Get a continuous assessment of the security of your cloud resources running in Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud. Use built-in policies and prioritized recommendations that are aligned to key industry and regulatory standards or build custom requirements that meet your organization's needs. Use actionable insights to automate recommendations and help ensure that resources are configured securely and meet your compliance needs. Microsoft Defender for Cloud enables you to protect against evolving threats across multicloud and hybrid environments.Starting Price: $0.02 per server per hour -
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Check Point CloudGuard
Check Point Software Technologies
The Check Point CloudGuard platform provides you cloud native security, with advanced threat prevention for all your assets and workloads – in your public, private, hybrid or multi-cloud environment – providing you unified security to automate security everywhere. Prevention First Email Security: Stop zero-day attacks. Remain ahead of attackers with unparalleled global threat intel. Leverage the power of layered email security. Native Solution, at the Speed of Your Business: Fast, straightforward deployment of invisible inline API based prevention. Unified Solution for Cloud Email & Office Suites: Granular insights and clear reporting with a single dashboard and license fee across mailboxes and enterprise apps. Check Point CloudGuard provides cloud native security for all your assets and workloads, across multi-clouds, allowing you to automate security everywhere, with unified threat prevention and posture management. -
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CloudDefense.AI
CloudDefense.AI
CloudDefense.AI is an industry-leading multi-layered Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) that safeguards your cloud infrastructure and cloud-native apps with unrivaled expertise, precision, and confidence. Elevate your code-to-cloud experience with the excellence of our industry-leading CNAPP, delivering unmatched security to ensure your business’s data integrity and confidentiality. From advanced threat detection to real-time monitoring and rapid incident response, our platform delivers complete protection, providing you with the confidence to navigate today’s complex security challenges. Seamlessly connecting with your cloud and Kubernetes landscape, our revolutionary CNAPP ensures lightning-fast infrastructure scans and delivers comprehensive vulnerability reports in mere minutes. No extra resources and no maintenance hassle. From tackling vulnerabilities to ensuring multi-cloud compliance, safeguarding workloads, and securing containers, we’ve got it all covered. -
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Cohesity
Cohesity
Simplify your data protection by eliminating legacy backup silos. Efficiently protect virtual, physical and cloud workloads, and ensure instant recovery. Bring compute to your data and run apps to gain insights. Protect your business from sophisticated ransomware attacks with a multilayered data security architecture. We don't need more single-purpose tools for all those silos. This patchwork leaves us more vulnerable to ransomware. Cohesity increases cyber resiliency and solves mass data fragmentation by consolidating data onto one hyper-scale platform. Modernize your data centers by consolidating backups, archives, file shares, object stores, and data used in analytics and dev/test. Our modern approach to solving these challenges is Cohesity Helios, a single next-gen data management platform that offers multiple services. Next-gen data management makes things easy to manage while keeping pace with your data growth. -
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Riverbed SteelHead
Riverbed Technology
SteelHead is the industry’s #1 optimization solution for accelerated delivery of any application across the Hybrid WAN. With SteelHead WAN optimization, you have better visibility into application and network performance and the end user experience. By combining network, application and end user performance metrics for deep visibility, IT can troubleshoot and fix problems before the user is impacted. Leveraging the solution’s application-aware approach, the most complete set of network services and path selection based on intent-based, business-driven, global policies with local enforcement, you also have significantly improved control to enable business agility. -
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Fidelis Halo
Fidelis Security
Fidelis Halo is a unified, SaaS-based cloud security platform that automates cloud computing security controls and compliance across servers, containers, and IaaS in any public, private, hybrid, and multi-cloud environment. With over 20,000 pre-configured rules and more than 150 policy templates that cover standards such as PCI, CIS, HIPAA, SOC, and DISA STIGs for IaaS services, Halo’s extensive automation capabilities streamline and accelerate workflows between InfoSec and DevOps. The comprehensive, bi-directional Halo API, developer SDK, and toolkit automate your security and compliance controls into your DevOps toolchain to identify critical vulnerabilities so they can be remediated prior to production. The free edition of Halo Cloud Secure includes full access to the Halo Cloud Secure CSPM service for up to 10 cloud service accounts across any mix of AWS, Azure, and GCP, at no cost to you, ever. Sign up now and start your journey to fully automated cloud security!Starting Price: Free -
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The Secure Gateway Service provides a quick, easy, and secure solution to connect anything to anything. The solution provides a persistent connection between on-premises or third-party cloud environments and the IBM Cloud®. Quickly set up gateways to connect your environments, manage the mapping between your local and remote destinations, and monitor all of your traffic. Monitor all your gateways from the Secure Gateway Service dashboard or monitor individual gateways from the Secure Gateway Service client. Simple access management controls are available from the Secure Gateway Service client to allow or deny access on a per resource basis to prevent any unauthorized access. This list will automatically synchronize to any client connected to the same gateway. With Professional and Enterprise plans, you can connect multiple instances of the Secure Gateway Service client to your gateway to automatically use built-in connection load balancing and connection fail-over.Starting Price: $100 per 5 gateways
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Contrast Security
Contrast Security
Modern software development must match the speed of the business. But the modern AppSec tool soup lacks integration and creates complexity that slows software development life cycles. Contrast simplifies the complexity that impedes today’s development teams. Legacy AppSec employs a one-size-fits-all vulnerability detection and remediation approach that is inefficient and costly. Contrast automatically applies the best analysis and remediation technique, dramatically improving efficiencies and efficacy. Separate AppSec tools create silos that obfuscate the gathering of actionable intelligence across the application attack surface. Contrast delivers centralized observability that is critical to managing risks and capitalizing on operational efficiencies, both for security and development teams. Contrast Scan is pipeline native and delivers the speed, accuracy, and integration demanded by modern software development.Starting Price: $0 -
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Panoptica
Cisco
Panoptica makes it easy to secure your containers, APIs, and serverless functions, and manage software bills of materials. It analyzes internal and external APIs and assigns risk scores. Your policies govern which API calls the gateway permits or disables. New cloud-native architectures allow teams to develop and deploy software more quickly, keeping up with the pace of today’s market. But this speed can come with a cost—security. Panoptica closes the gaps by integrating automated, policy-based security and visibility into every stage of the software-development lifecycle. Decentralized cloud-native architectures have significantly increased the number of attack surfaces. At the same time, changes in the computing landscape have raised the risk of catastrophic security breaches. Here are some of the reasons why comprehensive security is more important than ever before. You need a platform that protects the entire application lifecycle—from development to runtime.Starting Price: $0 -
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The cloud has opened up new avenues for the ways businesses function. The easy deployment, adaptive scalability, and economical costs of the cloud platform have many organizations adopting it. However, meeting compliance needs and growing security concerns about data loss and unauthorized access hinders the tapping of the platform's full potential. Cloud Security Plus combats these security concerns and protects your cloud. It gives complete visibility into both your AWS and Azure cloud infrastructures. The comprehensive reports, easy search mechanism, and customizable alert profiles enable you to track, analyze, and react to events happening in your cloud environments. Thus facilitating the smooth functioning of your business in a secure and protected cloud. To view the granular details of user activity in Salesforce, you need to examine all user events as a whole, including events like logins and report exports.Starting Price: $595 per account per year
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Alibaba Cloud Security Center
Alibaba Cloud
Powered by big data technologies, Security Center provides protection from ransomware, various viruses, and web tampering. Security Center also provides compliance assessment to protect cloud and on-premises servers and meet regulatory compliance requirements. Security Center is fully compatible with third-party service providers. This reduces operations and maintenance (O&M) costs for security management. Security Center integrates more than 250 threat detection models that are based on big data, 6 virus scan engines, 7 webshell engines, and 2 threat detection engines for cloud services. Alibaba Group has accumulated more than 10 years of experience in security defense. The capabilities of Security Center and other Alibaba Cloud security services have been utilized to ensure the security of double 11, which is one of the largest online shopping promotions around the world.Starting Price: $54 per server per year -
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Sysdig Secure
Sysdig
Cloud, container, and Kubernetes security that closes the loop from source to run. Find and prioritize vulnerabilities; detect and respond to threats and anomalies; and manage configurations, permissions, and compliance. See all activity across clouds, containers, and hosts. Use runtime intelligence to prioritize security alerts and remove guesswork. Shorten time to resolution using guided remediation through a simple pull request at the source. See any activity within any app or service by any user across clouds, containers, and hosts. Reduce vulnerability noise by up to 95% using runtime context with Risk Spotlight. Prioritize fixes that remediate the greatest number of security violations using ToDo. Map misconfigurations and excessive permissions in production to infrastructure as code (IaC) manifest. Save time with a guided remediation workflow that opens a pull request directly at the source. -
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Runecast
Runecast Solutions
Runecast is an enterprise CNAPP platform that saves your Security and Operations teams time and resources by enabling a proactive approach to ITOM, CSPM, and compliance. It automates vulnerability assessment, configuration drift management and continuous compliance – for VMware, Cloud and Containers. By proactively using our agentless scanning in real-time admins discover potential risks and remediation solutions before any issues can develop into a major outage. It provides continuous audits against vendor best practices, common security standards, and frameworks such as BSI IT-Grundschutz, CIS, Cyber Essentials, DISA STIG, DORA, Essential 8, GDPR, HIPAA, ISO 27001, KVKK, NIST, PCI DSS, TISAX, VMware Security Hardening Guidelines, and the CISA KEVs catalog. Detect and assess risks and be fully compliant across your hybrid cloud in minutes. Runecast has been recognized with Frost & Sullivan's 2023 European New Product Innovation Award in the CNAPP industry. -
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Lacework
Fortinet
Use data and automation to protect your multi-cloud environment, prioritize risks with pinpoint accuracy, and innovate with confidence. Enable faster innovation with security built in from the first line of code. Gain meaningful security insights to build apps quickly and confidently by shining a light on issues before they reach production — all within your existing workflows. With patented machine learning and behavioral analytics, our platform automatically learns what’s normal for your environment and reveals any abnormal behavior. 360º visibility tells you exactly what’s happening across your entire multicloud environment and detects threats, vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and unusual activity. Data and analytics drive unmatched fidelity. Automatically surface what matters most and remove pointless alerts. With an adaptive and ever-learning platform, monolithic rules become optional. -
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Rapid7 InsightVM
Rapid7
Better understand the risk in your modern environment so you can work in lockstep with technical teams. Align traditionally siloed teams and drive impact with the shared view and common language of InsightVM. Take a proactive approach to security with tracking and metrics that create accountability and recognize progress. InsightVM not only provides visibility into the vulnerabilities in your modern IT environment—including local, remote, cloud, containerized, and virtual infrastructure—but also clarity into how those vulnerabilities translate into business risk and which are most likely to be targeted by attackers. InsightVM is not a silver bullet. Instead, it provides the shared view and common language needed to align traditionally siloed teams and drive impact. It also supports a proactive approach to vulnerability management with tracking and metrics that create accountability for remediators, demonstrate impact across teams, and celebrate progress. -
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Nutanix Cost Governance
Nutanix
Drive financial accountability with intelligent resource sizing and accurate visibility into cloud metering and chargeback with NCM Cost Governance (formerly Beam). Achieve greater visibility, optimization and control across public, private, and hybrid multi-cloud environments to keep cloud costs under control. Visibility into public and private cloud spending simplifies cost management and multi-cloud governance. Save more by automating tasks, rightsizing resources and making smarter reserved instance purchases. Allocate resource costs based on consumption and drive governance with a multicolored chargeback. Total cost of ownership is based on the true cost of running a private cloud, including all IT admin costs, calculated using configurable industry standards. Automatically create cloud consumption reports to allocate untagged spending to a cost center and set up budget alerts to keep costs well under control. -
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Prisma Cloud
Palo Alto Networks
Comprehensive cloud native security. Prisma™ Cloud delivers comprehensive security across the development lifecycle on any cloud, enabling you to develop cloud native applications with confidence. The move to the cloud has changed all aspects of the application development lifecycle – security being foremost among them. Security and DevOps teams face a growing number of entities to secure as the organization adopts cloud native approaches. Ever-changing environments challenge developers to build and deploy at a frantic pace, while security teams remain responsible for the protection and compliance of the entire lifecycle. Firsthand accounts of Prisma Cloud’s best-in-class cloud security capabilities from some of our satisfied customers. -
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BMC Helix Cloud Security
BMC Software
Automated cloud security posture management. Designed for the cloud, in the cloud, BMC Helix Cloud Security takes the pain out of security and compliance for cloud resources and containers. Cloud security scoring and remediation for public cloud Iaas and PaaS services from AWS, Azure, and GCP. Automated remediation — no coding required. Container configuration security for Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, and GKE. Automated ticketing enrichment via ITSM integration. Ready-to-use CIS, PCI DSS, & GDPR policies, plus support for custom policies. Automated cloud server security management for AWS EC2 and MS Azure VMs. Your cloud footprint is constantly evolving, requiring a solution that accelerates agility without compromising security and compliance. BMC Helix Cloud Security is up to the challenge. Automated security checks and remediation for AWS, Azure, and GCP IaaS and PaaS services. -
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Sophos Cloud Optix
Sophos
Asset and network traffic visibility for AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. Risk-based prioritization of security issues with guided remediation. Optimize spend for multiple cloud services on a single screen. Get automatic identification and risk-profiling of security and compliance risks, with contextual alerts grouping affected resources, detailed remediation steps, and guided response. Track cloud services side by side on a single screen for improved visibility, receive independent recommendations to reduce spend, and identify indicators of compromise. Automate compliance assessments, save weeks of effort mapping Control IDs from overarching compliance tools to Cloud Optix, and produce audit-ready reports instantly. Seamlessly integrate security and compliance checks at any stage of the development pipeline to detect misconfigurations and embedded secrets, passwords, and keys. -
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Akamai Enterprise Threat Protector
Akamai Technologies
Enterprise Threat Protector is a cloud-based secure web gateway (SWG) that enables security teams to ensure that users and devices can safely connect to the Internet, regardless of where they are connecting from, without the complexity associated with legacy, appliance-based approaches. Deployed on the globally distributed Akamai Intelligent Edge Platform, Enterprise Threat Protector proactively identifies, blocks, and mitigates targeted threats such as malware, ransomware, phishing, DNS data exfiltration, and advanced zero-day attacks. This real-time visualization shows the phishing, malware, and command & control threats that Akamai is blocking (for customers) through its Intelligent Platform and its unprecedented insights into DNS and IP traffic. Protect web traffic at every corporate location and for off-network users quickly and without complexity with a cloud-delivered secure web gateway (SWG). -
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Security and risk management platform for Google Cloud. Understand the number of projects you have, what resources are deployed, and manage which service accounts have been added or removed. Identify security misconfigurations and compliance violations in your Google Cloud assets and resolve them by following actionable recommendations. Uncover threats targeting your resources using logs and powered by Google’s unique threat intelligence; use kernel-level instrumentation to identify potential compromises of containers. Discover and view your assets in near-real time across App Engine, BigQuery, Cloud SQL, Cloud Storage, Compute Engine, Cloud Identity and Access Management, Google Kubernetes Engine, and more. Review historical discovery scans to identify new, modified, or deleted assets. Understand the security state of your Google Cloud assets. Uncover common web application vulnerabilities such as cross-site scripting or outdated libraries in your web applications.
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Morphisec
Morphisec
Prevent unknown attacks that can't be predicted and inflict the most damage. Moving Target Defense applies across attack vectors and threat types — no need for indicators, no waiting for patches or updates. Morphisec drives down risk exposure and significantly lowers technology costs. Rethink your security model and improve your ROI by adding Morphisec. Morphisec's patented moving target defense technology is designed to provide end-to-end protection against the most damaging cyberattacks. With the power of moving target defense, attackers are unable to accurately identify the resources they need to leverage in order to evade your current defenses. This proactive cyber defense solution guards your critical systems with a lightweight, easy to install agent that doesn't require any updates to keep securing critical infrastructure. -
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AWS Control Tower
Amazon
If you're a customer with multiple AWS accounts and teams, cloud setup and governance can be complex and time consuming, slowing down the very innovation you’re trying to speed up. AWS Control Tower provides the easiest way to set up and govern a secure, multi-account AWS environment, called a landing zone. AWS Control Tower creates your landing zone using AWS Organizations, bringing ongoing account management and governance as well as implementation best practices based on AWS’s experience working with thousands of customers as they move to the cloud. With AWS Control Tower, builders can provision new AWS accounts in a few clicks, while you have peace of mind knowing that your accounts conform to company-wide policies. AWS customers can implement AWS Control Tower, extend governance into new or existing accounts, and gain visibility into their compliance status quickly.Starting Price: $0.001 per evaluation -
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Falcon Cloud Workload Protection
CrowdStrike
Falcon Cloud Workload Protection provides complete visibility into workload and container events and instance metadata enabling faster and more accurate detection, response, threat hunting and investigation, to ensure that nothing goes unseen in your cloud environment. Falcon Cloud Workload Protection secures your entire cloud-native stack, on any cloud, across all workloads, containers and Kubernetes applications. Automate security and detect and stop suspicious activity, zero-day attacks, risky behavior to stay ahead of threats and reduce the attack surface. Falcon Cloud Workload Protection key integrations support continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) workflows allowing you to secure workloads at the speed of DevOps without sacrificing performance
