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# The Architecture of Stopping-Power

## The runtime control layer modern cloud security demands.

## From Seeing Risks to Preventing Them

CNAPP brought posture, workload and identity into an integrated operating model, giving security teams a clearer way to see and prioritize cloud risk. Modern cloud environments have outgrown that model.

In their landmark paper, Agentic Cloud Security Platforms: The Shift to Runtime Security, Software Analyst Cyber Research (SACR) demonstrates how the limits of CNAPP are architectural. The security problem in AI-era environments no longer begins and ends with visibility and remediation.

## Cloud Security Must Move Closer to Runtime

SACR argues that security platforms must understand live execution in context, determine whether a behavior should be allowed to continue and convert context into precise stopping-power. Their paper gives security leaders and practitioners the architectural clarity to act on that shift.

What you'll take away:

* Why the traditional CNAPP can't close the gap between observation and governed action.

* A framework for separating theoretical exposure from active risk.

* Seven capability pillars of AI-native workload protection.

* A practitioner verdict on where the market is headed.

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