Cloud Native Security

Introduction

There is little doubt that we have witnessed a dramatic and notable change in the way that software applications are developed and deployed in recent years.

Take a moment to consider what has happened within the last decade alone. Start with the mind-blowing levels of adoption of containers, courtesy of Docker's clever packaging of Linux container technologies. Think of the pivotal maturation of cloud platforms with their ever-evolving service offerings. Remember the now-pervasive use of container orchestrators to herd multiple catlike containers. And do not forget that software applications have been teased apart and broken down into portable, microservice-sized chunks.

Combined, these significant innovations have empowered developers by offering them a whole new toolbox from which their software can be developed, and a reliable platform that their applications can be deployed upon.

In hand with the other recent milestone innovations in computing, such as the growth of Unix-like operating systems and the birth of the web and the internet as a whole, Cloud Native technologies have already achieved enough to merit a place in the history books. However, as with all newly formed tech, different types of security challenges surface and must be addressed in a timely fashion.

Cloud Native security is a complex, multifaceted topic to understand and even harder to get right. Why is that? The answer lies with the multiple, diverse components that need to be secured. The ...