The knowledge gap around runtime security and the associated risks
According to Aqua Security’s 2021 Cloud Native Security Practitioner study, only 3% recognize that a container, in and of itself, is not a security boundary, indicating …
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It takes less than one hour to exploit vulnerable container infrastructure
Aqua Security published a research revealing a continued rise in cyberattacks targeting container infrastructure and supply chains, and showing that it can now take less than …
Higher encryption adoption driven by rising data breach threats
Security and IT professionals in the Middle East are demonstrating a rising desire to secure critical applications and data, driving higher encryption adoption for newer use …
Kali Linux team releases Kaboxer, a tool for managing applications in containers
The team behind the popular pentesting Kali Linux distro has released Kaboxer, a tool to help penetration testers use older applications that don’t work on modern …
Label standard and best practices for Kubernetes security
This article talks about label standard and best practices for Kubernetes security, a common area where I see organizations struggle to define the set of labels required to …
Kubernetes adoption continues to grow
Portworx released findings from its survey which assesses the mass adoption and evolution of Kubernetes usage among enterprise users in the last 12 months, in addition to the …
Kubestriker: A security auditing tool for Kubernetes clusters
Kubestriker is an open-source, platform-agnostic tool for identifying security misconfigurations in Kubernetes clusters. It performs a variety of checks on a range of services …
MITRE ATT&CK v9 is out and includes ATT&CK for Containers
The Mitre Corporation has released the ninth version of its ATT&CK knowledge base of adversary tactics and techniques, which now also includes a newly created ATT&CK …
Managing and maturing Kubernetes security in the enterprise
The TL;DR version of the Infoworld article went something like this: “Companies are shying away from managing their own Kubernetes clusters and more and more, turning to …
Application container market to grow steadily by 2026
The application container market is expected to register a CAGR of 29% over the forecast period 2021 to 2026, according to ResearchAndMarkets. Increasing deployments of …
Container security is a priority, but who’s responsibility is it?
NeuVector released a survey that identifies current trends and challenges enterprises are grappling with as they increasingly turn to microservices architectures. Among …
Most containers are running as root, which increases runtime security risk
While container usage reveals organizations are shifting left by scanning images during the build phase, DevOps teams are still leaving their environments open to attack, …
