Based solely on the provided article body, cloud security is shifting from visibility to context-aware risk reduction. Frost & Sullivan’s 2026 Frost Radar™ for Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) reflects this shift, highlighting how CNAPP is evolving into a unified cloud risk operations platform that correlates signals across code, cloud, runtime, and SOC workflows. Within this market, Microsoft is positioned among leading CNAPP vendors. The report notes that CNAPP is becoming an operational platform for reducing risk, requiring platforms that can correlate posture, runtime, identity, and data signals, and prioritize risk based on exploitability. Five themes define the next generation of platforms: platform unification over point solutions, code-to-cloud-to-SOC integration, risk prioritization based on exploitability, correlation across identity, data, and application context, and expansion into AI-powered workloads. Microsoft Defender for Cloud correlates posture findings with identity, data, and runtime signals to help surface exploitable risks, such as a misconfigured storage resource combined with excessive permissions.