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Find cloud risk.
Enforce the boundary.
Stop unauthorized behavior before impact.

Warden CNAPP unifies application security, cloud posture, Kubernetes identity, continuous compliance, and runtime workload protection across hybrid environments. CSI turns findings into enforceable policy — and remediation into verified evidence.

10 questions · immediate posture-gap score · no obligation
SCENARIO · PUBLICLY EXPOSED WORKLOAD
ENFORCEMENT BOUNDARY EXTERNAL PUBLIC CLOUD WORKLOAD CODEdeps · secrets · IaC BUILDimages · registry CLOUDposture · drift RUNTIMEproc · file · net WARDEN CONTROL PLANE DISCOVERCONTEXTUALIZEDECIDECONTROLVERIFY
EVIDENCE RECORDSTATUS: VERIFIED
exposureclosed control staterevalidated evidencepreserved mappingCIS 5.x · SOC 2 CC6.6
SUPPORTED ENVIRONMENTS awsAWS Azure Google Cloud OpenShift VMware Kubernetes Virtual Machines Bare Metal
FRAMEWORK MAPPING CIS · NIST · PCI DSS · HIPAA · SOC 2 · ISO 27001
Framework mapping does not itself constitute certification or compliance.
The Reality

Cloud risk does not exist in one layer. Your defense cannot either.

LAYER · CODE & IAC

Vulnerable libraries, embedded secrets, and insecure templates enter the pipeline.

ASPM · SAST · SCA · DAST · IAC ANALYSIS
LAYER · CLOUD CONTROL PLANE

Misconfiguration, public exposure, and policy drift create attack paths.

CSPM · CONTINUOUS COMPLIANCE
LAYER · IDENTITY

Service accounts and principals quietly accumulate excessive authority.

KIEM / KSPM · LEAST PRIVILEGE
LAYER · RUNTIME

Approved software behaves unexpectedly, or an unknown process attempts unauthorized action.

CWPP · HARDENING · SEGMENTATION · INLINE ENFORCEMENT
The Architecture

From code to runtime, every control has a job.

Select a layer to see what it does. Five layers, one control plane.

Zero Dwell

Posture shows you the risk. Enforcement prevents it from becoming an incident.

Unauthorized operations are prevented from freely affecting the protected environment while classification and investigation occur. Kernel-level containment is available for supported host and workload configurations.

01 · OBSERVE

Discover assets, behavior, identity, and configuration.

02 · BASELINE

Define the intended workload and least-privilege state.

03 · GENERATE

Create Zero Trust policies from observed and approved behavior.

04 · ENFORCE

Restrict unauthorized process, file, and network actions at runtime.

05 · VERIFY

Confirm the control state and retain evidence for operations and audit.

CONVENTIONAL FINDING WORKFLOW
Discover risk
Generate an alert
Wait for triage
Open a ticket
Hope the issue is fixed
WARDEN CNAPP OPERATING MODEL
Discover risk
Determine intended state
Generate or assign enforcement policy
Enforce or route through approved remediation
Recheck and retain evidence
Where It Fits

Find your environment.

Kubernetes & container security

Identify exposed clusters, vulnerable images, overprivileged service accounts, and unauthorized runtime behavior.

Hybrid-cloud migration

Apply consistent policy across public cloud, private cloud, virtual machines, and traditional workloads.

Continuous compliance

Replace periodic evidence collection with continuously updated posture, control, and remediation records.

Identity & entitlement control

Expose excessive permissions and hidden relationships among principals, workloads, and cloud resources.

Secure DevSecOps

Stop insecure code, dependencies, secrets, and infrastructure templates from silently progressing into production.

AI SAFE² EXTENSION

Agentic-cloud governance

Extend workload and identity controls with AI SAFE² authority, memory, tool-use, and human-control requirements.

How to Evaluate the Category

Four operating models. One closes the loop.

Visibility is necessary. Enforcement closes the loop. Hover a column to focus it.

BUYER CRITERION CSPM-ONLY TOOL GRAPH-FIRST CNAPP PROVIDER-NATIVE CNAPP WARDEN CNAPP
Why CSI

A CNAPP license does not create a cloud-security operating model.

CSI designs the control architecture, determines where enforcement belongs, translates regulatory requirements into technical controls, integrates the platform into your existing operations, and verifies that remediation actually occurred.

Architecture before deployment

Cloud accounts, clusters, workloads, identities, data flows, and compliance obligations are scoped before controls are enabled.

Policy engineering

Findings are translated into least-privilege, segmentation, workload-hardening, and remediation policies.

Hybrid integration

Controls connect to your SIEM, SOC, ticketing, notification, and incident-response processes.

Evidence, not screenshots

CSI defines the records needed to show the control state, remediation action, verification result, and operational owner.

Independent extensions

Where required: ReversingLabs supply-chain assurance, Horizon3.ai attack-path validation, AI SAFE² agentic governance, and managed SOC support.

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What Implementation Looks Like

Four stages. Controlled scope. Verified outcome.

STAGE 1 · DISCOVER

Cloud-account, workload, cluster, identity, and compliance baseline.

STAGE 2 · ARCHITECT

Target architecture, control boundaries, integrations, and deployment sequence.

STAGE 3 · ENFORCE

CSPM, ASPM, KIEM, and runtime policies configured for the approved scope.

STAGE 4 · VERIFY

Remediation validation, operating procedures, dashboards, and evidence package.

Find the control gap before it becomes a cloud incident.

Complete the 10-question assessment for an immediate posture-gap score, or schedule a focused review of your cloud architecture, workload model, and enforcement requirements.

NO GENERIC SALES PRESENTATION · THE REVIEW FOCUSES ON YOUR ARCHITECTURE, WORKLOADS, AND CONTROL GAPS

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