Microsoft named a Leader in Frost Radar 2026
🔒 Microsoft has been named a visionary leader in Frost & Sullivan’s Frost Radar™: Cloud Workload Protection Platforms, 2026. The report highlights a market shift from isolated scanning to a unified runtime security model that connects code, cloud resources, identities, and SOC workflows. Frost & Sullivan cites Microsoft Defender for Cloud’s scale, deep runtime telemetry, and integration with Defender XDR, Sentinel, GitHub, and Copilot as key strengths. This positioning reflects Microsoft’s estimated >22% share of the global CWPP market and emphasizes runtime depth, container and Kubernetes security, and AI workload protection.