Mike Vizard is a seasoned IT journalist with over 25 years of experience. He also contributed to IT Business Edge, Channel Insider, Baseline and a variety of other IT titles. Previously, Vizard was the editorial director for Ziff-Davis Enterprise as well as Editor-in-Chief for CRN and InfoWorld.
Container Security Challenges Impacting Pace of App Dev
A global survey finds 96% of respondents reporting their companies are experiencing cloud-native application challenges that are leading to slower deployment cycles, with more than two-thirds (67%) naming security as the top ...
CrowdStrike: DoS Attack Against Russia Uses Containers
CrowdStrike today revealed that it has detected the surreptitious use of containers to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against IT assets in Russia and Belarus. A Docker honeypot set up by CrowdStrike, ...
Kubernetes 1.24 Release Arrives to Finally Deprecate Dockershim
The Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) for Kubernetes today announced it released a long-anticipated update that formally removes support for a Dockershim interface that enables Docker, Inc.’s DockerEngine runtime to run on Kubernetes ...
IBM Taps Red Hat OpenShift to Modernize IBM i App Portfolios
IBM today adds an IBM i Modernization Engine for Lifecycle Integration development tool for the IBM i operating system that makes it simpler to build modern application environments running on IBM Power ...
Docker, Inc. Makes Transition to CRI Transparent for Developers
Docker Inc. has made an update to its Docker Desktop tool which replaces dockershim with cri-dockerd for version 1.24 of Kubernetes. Dave Scott, a staff software engineer at Docker, Inc. says that ...
Survey Sees IT Teams Taking Control of K8s Clusters
A survey of 776 software development and IT professionals published this week by VMware indicates IT operations teams and platform/cloud architects are assuming responsibility for managing Kubernetes clusters as they are deployed ...
CrowdStrike Adds Container Support to Cloud Security Platform
CrowdStrike today launched a cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) based on its Falcon Cloud Workload Protection (CWP) offering that can now detect threats aimed at containers, prevent rogue containers from running and ...
New Relic Report Shows Lots of Java Apps Running in Containers
New Relic today published a state of the Java ecosystem report that finds more than 70% of Java applications in production environments are running inside a container. A much higher percentage of ...
CrowdStrike Details LemonDuck Cryptojacking Container Attack Campaign
CrowdStrike has published an alert detailing an active campaign that uses compromised containers to mine for cryptocurrency on Linux platforms launched via a botnet known as LemonDuck. LemonDuck is a cryptomining botnet ...
Chainguard Launches Platform to Enforce Secure Containers
Chainguard today launched a platform that ensures only trusted container images are run on Kubernetes clusters to ensure the integrity of a software supply chain. Chainguard Enforce! is the first product from ...
