Do You Have Containers in Your Environment? Using Container Discovery to Be Sure

Do You Have Containers in Your Environment? Using Container Discovery to Be Sure

When chatting with security teams, something we often hear is, “I don’t have any containers in my environment—I think.” Teams may be adamant they have no containers, but running a container discovery assessment typically winds up proving this is not actually the case. The average company runs eight containers per host driving mission-critical apps, but because development or operations teams set them up, security is often the last in the loop.


So, this means the question then evolves from if you have containers to how many containers are running rogue in your environment that you didn’t know about. And, when you do discover that you have containers, what do you do about it?


In this post, we’ll show you how you can use the container security features in InsightVM to find out whether you have containers you didn’t know about and how to assess them for risk.


How did containers get there?!


Containers are very appealing for companies that adopt continuous development (CD) and continuous integration (CI) methodologies. They’re easy to spin up and down to experiment and get things done, while opening up an entirely new way of creating and deploying applications.


Security teams often get left in the dark, leading them to think there are no containers in the environment. This happens for a few reasons, sometimes teams are concerned by the old stigma that the security team will slow them down, they simply forget to loop in their security counterparts in, or are unaware of the implicati ..

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