Recognition highlights Upwind’s leadership in the runtime-first era of modern cloud security
Upwind, a next-generation cloud security provider, announced that it has been named a Cloud Security Leader and CADR (Cloud Application Detection and Response) Leader in the Latio 2025 Cloud Security Report. The annual report identifies the top innovators, technologies, and vendors redefining how organizations secure cloud-native environments against evolving threats. This year’s edition marks a turning point for the industry, shifting focus from visibility to runtime reality, the live context of what’s happening inside workloads and applications.
Latio’s 2025 analysis highlights the industry’s shift from static posture management toward real-time, runtime-driven protection, an area where Upwind continues to lead. The report emphasizes how cloud security vendors are expanding beyond visibility to focus on contextual risk reduction, developer-aligned remediation, and application-layer intelligence. The report specifically notes that Upwind extends runtime visibility into posture management, “bridging runtime context and preventive posture into one platform,” and praises its fast onboarding and robust detection across diverse environments.
“Few vendors are as aligned with where the market is heading as Upwind,” said James Berthoty, Founder and CEO of Latio Tech. “By correlating runtime telemetry with posture data, Upwind exemplifies how next-generation platforms are closing the gap between detection and actionable response.”
Upwind’s runtime-first architecture continuously monitors live workloads, cloud assets, and identities in motion, giving security teams real-time visibility into what’s actually exploitable, not just what’s theoretically misconfigured. It unifies this data into a single contextual map of cloud risk, allowing organizations to detect and prioritize threats without slowing down developers or production systems. By correlating runtime signals with code and configuration data, Upwind embodies what Latio defines as the future of cloud security, which is unified, contextual, and live.
Upwind’s Security Runtime Fabric protects the entire application lifecycle, from shift-left CI/CD scanning to runtime detection, unifying visibility across configurations, vulnerabilities, and network exposure points through an agentless design. Latio cites Upwind as “the first CNAPP to include API security capabilities by inspecting Layer 7 network traffic and applying ADR techniques to runtime threats,” capabilities that define the CADR leader category. This forward-thinking approach helps teams identify which vulnerabilities actually execute at runtime and focus remediation where it matters most.
This recognition from Latio follows a year of exceptional momentum across the analyst landscape. Recently, Upwind was named the overall winner of a competitive demo evaluation hosted by analyst James Berthoty, earning top-three placements in Application Security, Runtime Security, and CSPM categories. It adds to growing analyst consensus around Upwind’s leadership in runtime-first cloud protection, following recent mentions in Gartner®’s 2025 Market Guide for CNAPP, citations in three Gartner® Hype Cycles, and Forrester’s CNAPP Solutions Landscape. These milestones reflect increasing validation of Upwind’s pioneering approach to live, contextual cloud protection.
Over the past year, the company has accelerated innovation through initiatives such as its acquisition and integration of Nyx, which introduced In-Use Functions to distinguish between active and dormant code paths, and the launch of its Serverless Framework for real-time compliance. These advancements, alongside improvements in contextual risk reduction and workload visibility, have helped customers cut alert fatigue by as much as 98% and strengthened Upwind’s position as one of the most transformative players in modern cloud security.
“We’re honored to be recognized by Latio as both a Cloud Security and CADR Leader,” said Amiram Shachar, CEO and Co-founder of Upwind. “This acknowledgment reinforces our belief that cloud security must be built around live context, not static scans. Cloud environments are constantly in motion, and defenders deserve tools that move with them, giving them clarity, confidence, and space to focus on what truly matters. That’s what runtime visibility represents for us, both a technology shift and a better way to help people understand and protect the systems they rely on every day.”
The Latio 2025 Cloud Security Report concludes that the future of cloud security will not be defined by a single platform, but by how teams operationalize runtime intelligence. Upwind’s recognition across both the Cloud Security and CADR categories reflects this direction in practice.
With over 200 enterprise customers including Agoda, Peloton, Bill, and Boomi, Upwind continues to expand globally with an annual growth surpassing 4,000% between 2024 and 2025.
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