Upwind Named CNADR Company of the Year by Frost & Sullivan and Recognized in the Gartner® 2025 Market Guide for CNAPP and Three Hype Cycles

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Upwind, a next-generation cloud security provider, today announced it has been recognized across multiple analyst reports in 2025, including publications from Gartner® and Frost & Sullivan. Upwind believes these acknowledgements validate its bottom up, hard work, rebuilding cloud security with Runtime as a foundation and its momentum in shaping the future of cloud-native security and highlight the company’s continued impact on the rapidly evolving CNAPP (Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform) category.

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Upwind is a Runtime-first cloud security platform that secures deployments, configurations, and applications by providing real-time visibility from the inside out. Its unified Runtime fabric maps an environment as it runs - revealing what’s truly at risk, what’s actively happening, and how to respond quickly and effectively. A live map of network and application topology enables teams to prioritize fixes based on real usage and detect threats as they happen.

“Upwind's real-time insights and support have enhanced our cloud security operations,” said Sardorbek Pulatov, VP Engineering & Security at Vestiaire Collective. “Upwind saves us a significant amount of time, helping our team focus on the truly critical alerts while disregarding low-priority findings. With Upwind, we are able to identify any vulnerabilities and can prioritize them for remediation - helping us operate more efficiently and securely.”

For Upwind, recognition across leading analyst firms underscores growing market demand for this consolidated, developer-aligned, inside-out approach to securing modern applications.

Recognized across multiple analyst landscapes

In 2025, Upwind has been:

A platform built for Runtime speed, developer control, and real security outcomes

Upwind believes its recognition is grounded in its differentiated approach to cloud-native security built from the ground-up for Runtime. By combining a lightweight eBPF-based sensor with full-stack visibility, Upwind empowers security teams to detect, investigate, and respond to risks and threats in real time, without adding complexity or slowing down developers.

The platform's unique Threat Stories capability correlates Runtime signals, misconfigurations, audit logs, and identity data into a single, actionable view - enabling teams to trace threats back to the exact code or pipeline that introduced them.

“Security can’t be bolted on after deployment. It has to be built in continuously, contextually, and with developers at the center,” said Amiram Shachar, CEO and Co-Founder of Upwind. “To us, this wave of analyst recognition validates the strength of our vision, our product, and most importantly, our team. Upwind’s momentum is driven by real customer adoption, technical innovation, and word-of-mouth from the people who use and love our platform. We’re not building for the exit; we’re building for impact. We’re focused on solving real, complex problems for the teams building and securing the cloud. That’s why engineers, platform teams, and SOCs are choosing Upwind to simplify, scale, and unify cloud-native security at the speed of modern development.”

Market momentum in a maturing category

As cloud-native adoption accelerates, organizations are moving away from fragmented tools and seeking integrated solutions that provide visibility across the entire application lifecycle. According to Gartner, CNAPP platforms are emerging as the preferred approach for securing dynamic cloud environments, especially as DevSecOps, platform engineering, and GenAI adoption rise.

Frost & Sullivan described Upwind as a game-changer in this space, citing its ability to drive impact across the customer value chain and consolidate once-disconnected functions like ADR, CDR, CWPP, and CSPM into a single system.

About Upwind

Upwind is the next-generation cloud security platform built to lead the Runtime revolution. With rapid momentum and a bold vision to unify cloud and application-layer protection, Upwind helps organizations run faster, detect threats earlier, and secure their environments with unmatched precision. Upwind was founded by Amiram Shachar and his founding partners from Spot.io (which was sold to NetApp for $450 million) and is backed by top cybersecurity investors Greylock, Cyberstarts, Leaders Fund, Craft Ventures, Cerca Partners, and Sheva, a VC fund founded by former NBA player Omri Casspi. The company has secured $180 million in funding since its founding in 2022. For more information or to schedule a demo and see the future of Runtime security firsthand, visit www.upwind.io.

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Upwind Named CNADR Company of the Year by Frost & Sullivan and Recognized in the Gartner® 2025 Market Guide for CNAPP and Three Hype Cycles

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Friday that he will meet with U.S. President Donald Trump in Florida over the weekend.

Zelenskyy told journalists that the two leaders will discuss security guarantees for Ukraine during Sunday's talks, and that the 20-point plan under discussion “is about 90% ready.”

An “economic agreement” also will be discussed, Zelenskyy said, but that he was unable to confirm “whether anything will be finalized by the end.”

The Ukrainian side will also raise "territorial issues", he said.

Zelenskyy said that Ukraine “would like the Europeans to be involved," but doubted whether it would be possible at short notice.

“We must, without doubt, find some format in the near future in which not only Ukraine and the U.S. are present, but Europe is represented as well,” he said.

The announced meeting is the latest development in an extensive U.S.-led diplomatic push to end the nearly four-year Russia-Ukraine war, but efforts have run into sharply conflicting demands by Moscow and Kyiv.

Zelenskyy's comments came after he said Thursday that he had a “good conversation” with U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Friday that the Kremlin had already been in contact with U.S. representatives since Russian presidential envoy Kirill Dmitriev recently met with U.S. envoys in Florida.

“It was agreed upon to continue the dialogue," he said.

Trump is engaged in a diplomatic push to end Russia's all-out war, which began on Feb. 24, 2022, but his efforts have run into sharply conflicting demands by Moscow and Kyiv.

Zelenskyy said Tuesday that he would be willing to withdraw troops from Ukraine's eastern industrial heartland as part of a plan to end the war, if Russia also pulls back and the area becomes a demilitarized zone monitored by international forces.

Though Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Thursday that there had been “slow but steady progress” in the peace talks, Russia has given no indication that it will agree to any kind of withdrawal from land it has seized.

In fact, Moscow has insisted that Ukraine relinquish the remaining territory it still holds in the Donbas — an ultimatum that Ukraine has rejected. Russia has captured most of Luhansk and about 70% of Donetsk — the two areas that make up the Donbas.

On the ground, one person was killed and three others were wounded when a guided aerial bomb hit a house in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region, while six people were wounded in a missile strike on the city of Uman, local officials said Friday.

Russian drone attacks on the city of Mykolaiv and its suburbs overnight into Friday left part of the city without power. Energy and port infrastructure were damaged by drones in the city of Odesa on the Black Sea.

Meanwhile, Ukraine said that it struck a major Russian oil refinery on Thursday using U.K.-supplied Storm Shadow missiles.

Ukraine’s General Staff said that its forces hit the Novoshakhtinsk refinery in Russia’s Rostov region.

“Multiple explosions were recorded. The target was hit,” it wrote on Telegram.

Rostov regional Gov. Yuri Slyusar said that a firefighter was wounded when extinguishing the fire.

Ukraine’s long-range drone strikes on Russian refineries aim to deprive Moscow of the oil export revenue it needs to pursue its full-scale invasion. Russia wants to cripple the Ukraine's power grid, seeking to deny civilians access to heat, light and running water in what Ukrainian officials say is an attempt to “weaponize winter.”

Follow the AP’s coverage of the war at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks during a media conference at the EU Summit in Brussels, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)