At IBM X-Force, we keep our customers on the cutting edge of cybersecurity experiences, centered around incident response, and these include responding in cloud native environments.
What is cloud native? It is a concept that grew out of the astonishing and rapid transition to cloud computing and is a fundamental shift in how applications and infrastructure are built, deployed and secured. The driving forces behind cloud native is the popularity of Kubernetes, the fast-growing open-source container orchestration systems and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). The CNCF serves as the vendor-neutral home for many of the fastest-growing open-source projects, including Kubernetes.
At IBM, we define cloud native applications and infrastructure as those that “consist of discrete, reusable components known as microservices that are designed to integrate into any cloud environment. These microservices act as building blocks and are often packaged in containers. Microservices work together as a whole to comprise an application, yet each can be independently scaled, continuously improved and quickly iterated through automation and orchestration processes.”
With cloud native becoming a key part of many organizations’ IT infrastructure planning, we recognize all related capabilities need to extend into cloud native. That includes detecting and responding to incidents that can impact these environments.
From Physical to Virtual to Cloud Native
The concept of the cyber range was born in the physical era. If an enterprise deployed a server, security or IT administrators (admins) controlled the physical box and the cage, including network interface cards, the hard drives and everything else. If an enterprise ran software, it controlled the code it was installing. In the virtual and cloud native realms, admins and security have little to no control of the physical hardware ..
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