Lacework (now FortiCNAPP) Review 2026

AI-powered cloud-native application protection platform providing behavioral threat detection, compliance monitoring, and vulnerability management across multi-cloud environments

Lacework, now part of Fortinet's FortiCNAPP suite following its August 2024 acquisition, is a cutting-edge cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) that revolutionizes cloud security through advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning. Unlike traditional signature-based security solutions that rely on predefined rules, Lacework creates dynamic behavioral baselines for cloud workloads and automatically detects anomalous activities that could indicate sophisticated security threats.

The platform excels at providing real-time threat detection with minimal false positives by continuously analyzing massive amounts of cloud telemetry data. Lacework's AI engine can identify complex attack patterns including insider threats, advanced persistent threats (APTs), data exfiltration attempts, and lateral movement within cloud environments. This approach enables security teams to detect threats that would otherwise evade traditional security controls.