The Sysdig 2024 Cloud‑Native Security and Usage Report comes at an exciting time after a year of cybersecurity making headlines worldwide. This is indicative of how broad the security landscape has grown in a short amount of time, thanks to the cloud. This report looks at real‑world data to draw conclusions about the state of cloud security. From our perspective, we see that organizations continue to struggle with the shift‑left concept. Although runtime threat prioritization has greatly reduced vulnerabilities, there remains an urgency for powerful and speedy cloud threat detection and response (TDR).