Protect Cloud Workloads at Runtime — Not Just at Deployment
Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) secure running workloads — virtual machines, containers, and serverless functions — through runtime threat detection, vulnerability assessment, behavioral monitoring, and micro-segmentation that controls workload-to-workload communication.
What RLM Delivers on Cloud Workload Protection
CSPM catches configuration problems; CWPP catches threats in running workloads. Attackers who penetrate your cloud environment move laterally between workloads — CWPP detects this movement and provides the response capabilities to contain threats before they spread.
How We Approach Cloud Workload Protection
A structured path through the Cloud Workload Protection decision — current-state discovery, shortlist and benchmark, commercial negotiation, then support until it is actually working.
Workload Inventory & Risk Assessment
We inventory your cloud workload estate — EC2 instances, EKS clusters, Lambda functions, Azure VMs, GKE pods — and assess the security posture of each workload type against vulnerability exposure, privilege levels, and network exposure.
CWPP Platform Evaluation
We evaluate CWPP platforms — Wiz, Prisma Cloud CWPP, Orca Security, Lacework, CrowdStrike Falcon for Cloud — against your workload types, deployment model, and the runtime detection depth required for your threat model.
Runtime Protection Architecture
We design the runtime protection architecture — agent vs. agentless deployment, micro-segmentation policy design, and the anomaly detection configuration that distinguishes legitimate workload behavior from attack activity.
Vulnerability & Configuration Remediation
CWPP vulnerability findings require integration with CI/CD pipelines for developer remediation. We design the remediation workflow that surfaces findings to developers at the right point in the development lifecycle.
Cloud Workload Protection Evaluation Criteria
Before committing to any Cloud Workload Protection platform, these are the points worth forcing a straight answer on.
Agent vs. Agentless
Agent-based CWPP provides deep runtime visibility and enforcement capability; agentless provides broad coverage with minimal deployment overhead. Evaluate the coverage depth vs. deployment complexity trade-off for your workload types.
Container & Kubernetes Coverage
Container workloads require specialized protection — image scanning, runtime behavioral detection, and Kubernetes admission control. Evaluate container-specific capabilities if Kubernetes is part of your environment.
Serverless Coverage
Serverless functions are difficult to protect with traditional agents. Evaluate the platform's serverless security capabilities — Lambda, Azure Functions, GCP Cloud Run — if serverless is significant in your environment.
East-West Traffic Visibility
Lateral movement between cloud workloads is a primary attack technique. Evaluate the platform's visibility into workload-to-workload communication and the micro-segmentation capabilities that restrict unnecessary east-west traffic.
CI/CD Integration for Shift-Left
Catching vulnerabilities in running production workloads is late in the lifecycle. Evaluate CI/CD integration — image scanning in pipelines, infrastructure-as-code security scanning — that prevents vulnerable workloads from reaching production.
CNAPP Consolidation
Modern platforms combine CSPM, CWPP, and CIEM capabilities into Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP). Evaluate whether a consolidated CNAPP approach better serves your requirements than separate CSPM and CWPP tools.
"RLM helped us build a security program that satisfied our board and our auditors — without locking us into a single vendor's roadmap. Their independence is the whole point."
We stay involved through implementation, because selection is the easy half.
Where This Matters Most
Sector-specific considerations we see repeatedly in security engagements.
A Sample of the Security Providers We Evaluate
RLM is vendor neutral. These are among 600+ providers in our evaluation set — inclusion here is not an endorsement, and we are paid by the provider you choose, not by any provider in particular. How that works →
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