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Microservices Security Primer: How to Secure Microservices APIs
If you use Docker containers or other microservices to host your apps, you probably rely heavily on APIs. And if you want to run those apps in production, securing the APIs is ...

Overcoming 7 Challenges to Enterprise Container Adoption
The analysts at 451 Research forecast that the container market will soon explode, increasing in value to $2.7 billion by 2020 from $762 million last year. Adoption of container technologies is growing ...

A Security Guy’s Top 10 Container Ecosystem Milestones
2016 was a big year for the virtual container space, and 2017 looks even more promising. The industry saw tremendous growth and continues to evolve at a rapid pace. Containers, being still ...

Now’s the Best Time for Container Adoption
Enterprise software companies stand to benefit greatly from container technology, yet adoption has been slow. It’s understood that containers could help to speed the inevitable force of digital transformation, overcoming the challenges ...

Hands-On Lab to Explore Docker on Windows
If you are looking for the chance to explore how Docker works on Windows, Microsoft has just delivered an early Christmas present. A totally web-based hands-on lab to explore Docker on Windows ...

Make Containers Contain and Work for You
Docker containers have become an important tool in the developer’s toolbox. Adoption of this technology has been phenomenal. To date, Docker has surpassed 2 billion container downloads, which increased at a tremendous ...

Database Containerization Platform Checklist
Containers are lightweight, fast and agile, and solve all dependency issues related to the applications. With such benefits, why aren’t we using containers for stateful apps? It certainly isn’t because of vendors ...

SecDevOps and Containers: Kill the Candy-Related Analogies
Google “SecDevOps” and the results show that security teams are ready and willing to jump on the DevOps bandwagon. DevOps folks talk a lot about “shifting left,” i.e., addressing issues earlier in ...

Container Security Needs to Be Easy
We are all familiar by now with the promised benefits of deploying applications with Docker containers. These include: Significant scalability and agility improvements, Predictable performance and resource isolation, and Application portability and ...

Container Security: Why Bother?
Are containers secure? Probably not. But knowing each approach’s strengths and risks—and available options—could help ease adoption. Such a decision requires two primary considerations: Containers do not provide the same level of ...