Aviatrix today committed to building a security fabric that because it will run natively in cloud computing environments will enable cybersecurity teams to streamline workflows in a way that also promises to reduce total costs.

Company CEO Doug Merritt said a Cloud Native Security Fabric (CNSF) will enable cybersecurity teams to enforce policies in real-time across highly dynamic cloud computing environments. CNSF will enable cybersecurity to automatically segment traffic that the platform will also encrypt to create a zero-trust IT environment, he added.

Many of the cloud security challenges that organizations encounter today can be attributed to legacy tools and platforms that have been bolted onto cloud computing environments, said Merrits. Aviatrix will build a CNSF that embeds policy controls directly inside cloud computing environments in a way that enables cybersecurity teams to keep pace with rapid changes being made to applications and infrastructure, said Merritt. That’s critical because in modern computing environments, there are no static IP addresses that legacy tools and platforms depend upon to enforce policies, he added.

A survey of 403 U.S. IT professionals conducted by Aviatrix finds that 88% work for organizations that use more than one cloud service provider, with 61% relying on three or more. Nearly all (91%) use firewalls provided by their cloud service provider (CSP), but 64% also deploy third-party solutions. As a result, more than two-thirds (67%) struggle to integrate these tools effectively within their broader security stack. There are also additional operational friction points that affect scaling and performance, with 55% experiencing performance overhead, and half citing scalability challenges.

More than half (52%) report difficulty managing east-west traffic and only 8% have zero-trust architectures for securing inter-cloud traffic, even though 58% report they employ microsegmentation extensively. Nearly half (49%) also note they’re struggling with consistently enforcing cloud security across their hybrid and on-premises environments,

Finally, almost half (46%) also face major challenges securing DevOps pipelines, the survey finds.

It’s not clear to what degree organizations might be willing to consider a new approach to cloud security but as the total cost of cybersecurity continues to grow it may be only a matter of time before economics forces the issue. A recent Futurum Research survey finds on average 11% of the IT budget in 2025 is being allocated to cybersecurity. Only half of organizations (49%) are planning either a major (10%), moderate (21%) or minor consolidation (18%) to streamline operations but Aviatrix is betting that if that goal becomes easier to achieve more organizations will move to reduce the total cost of cybersecurity.

Regardless of motivation, adversaries are clearly exploiting the gaps that exist between all the various tools and platforms that organizations employ today. The CNSF being advanced by Aviatrix promises to unify the management of cybersecurity across highly ephemeral cloud computing environments that will only become more challenging to secure in the age of agentic artificial intelligence (AI), said Merritt.

The issue now, of course, is overcoming much of the internal inertia that has historically prevented most organizations from addressing a complexity issue that ultimately plays into the hands of cybercriminals, who with each passing day are only becoming more adept at identifying seams between tools and platforms that they can repeatedly exploit.