More than 85 percent of companies already operate in multicloud environments and by 2021, 98 percent plan to use multiple hybrid clouds, according to the IBM Institute for Business Value (IBV). After cloud adoption, the application modernization trend follows, with an integral part of it being microservices architecture — decomposing monoliths into single-job oriented, containerized services exchanging data over APIs. As most companies are using more than just one cloud for their applications, what does this mean from a cybersecurity point of view?
Here are three aspects that your IT and security teams need to be aware of when it comes to the security aspects of containerized applications.
1. Application Vulnerabilities
The modern application today uses tons of open-source libraries. They are great in general, as they provide a solid baseline to build on top of, but they require vetting applications against publicly known common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) raised against those libraries.
Fortunately, there are tools that scan Docker images of the applications to detect issues. Some public clouds provide integrated vulnerability scanning services, which can not only detect issues in the container image and prevent them from being deployed but also can detect containers’ configuration drift during their lifetime. It’s worth checking to ensure your cloud has this service turned on.
2. Varied Configurations
Each cloud might have different configurations for storage, networking, load balancing and other aspects. Following the configuration as the code design pattern helps significantly, but don’t stop there. If possible, apply policy-driven configurations, ideally making sure that your Kubernetes clusters ..
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