The Crisis in the Cloud: A Declaration for Cloud Native Security Closing the Architectural Divide

Today’s cloud security stack is fractured—creating an architectural divide where workloads move faster than security can enforce consistent policy, leaving the largest unguarded attack surface in the enterprise. This paper introduces the Cloud Native Security Fabric, a new security architecture embedded directly in the cloud runtime that turns Zero Trust from a strategy into real‑time, enforceable control—without slowing innovation.