As businesses continue to adopt both infrastructure-as-a-service (iaaS) and platform -as-a-service (PaaS) cloud platforms, S&r pros struggle to protect their organization’s valuable data while minimizing the threat surface of cloud and hybrid cloud workloads. Cloud workload security (CWS) solutions provide automated and layered controls to secure configurations, network, applications, and storage of hybrid cloud hypervisors and workloads. this report provides S&r pros with an overview of the CWS vendor landscape, critical selection criteria, and key vendor differentiation.