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Hey, everyone. Welcome to Cyberwire X, a series of specials where we highlight important security topics affecting security professionals worldwide.

I'm Rick Howard, N2K's chief security officer and the CyberWire's chief analyst and senior fellow.

And today we're talking about CNAPS, cloud-native application protection

platforms. And that is a mouthful. After the break, we'll take a deep dive look about this

relatively new complexity reduction pool and why you should consider deploying one. Come right back. Panoptica, Cisco's cloud application security solution

provides in-to-in lifecycle protection for cloud-native application environments.

It empowers organizations to safeguard their APIs, serverless functions, containers, and

Kubernetes environments.

Panoptica ensures comprehensive cloud security, compliance, and monitoring at scale,

offering deep visibility, contextual risk assessments, and actionable

remediation insights for all of your cloud assets.

Get more information on Panaptica's website, panoptica.app.app.

That's p-A-N-O-P-T-I-C-A dot app.

Today at the Cyberwire hash table, I'm joined by Tim Miller, the technical marketing engineer at Panoptico, Cisco's cloud application security solution, discovered and acquired by their new products and markets incubation engine called Outshift just last year, and Kevin Ford,

the CISO at ESRI, and a veteran hash table discussion member. I started out by asking Tim to give

a high-level description of what these CNAPs are and how they might be

useful. When we deploy our cloud-native apps in the cloud, we've got all these different layers

that we have to prepare before we even start running that application. Deploying cloud accounts,

configuring them, giving the access,

the network topology,

if I'm using AWS terminology,

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