Cloud-Native Security

Containers: 4 Key Security Considerations
Containers promise to help software development organizations save time and money by providing a mechanism for making applications much more portable across development, testing, and deployment environments. The ubiquitous nature of containers ...

Illumio brings security to the Docker Mesosphere ecosystem
Illumio, a Silicon Valley Unicorn announced that its Adaptive Security Platform (ASP)TM will now work with Docker in the Mesosphere Data Center OS (DCOS). This integration brings a new level of security to ...

Security is a major hurdle for the container revolution
It seems like containers just became a thing. Docker took containers from fringe technology to mainstream IT. A new survey from Twistlock shows just how far containers have come in a relatively ...

CoreOS teams with Intel to make Rocket containers more secure
CoreOS is working with Intel to make its container platform more secure. CoreOS recently revealed that it is adding support for Intel Clear Containers to its Rocket (rkt) container environment. Containers have ...

Docker Security Evolving to Advance Adoption
It’s a time-honored story arc at this point; an emerging technology gains rabid affection among practitioners eager to embrace its inherent benefits, then related security concerns begin to cloud the horizon, threatening ...

New approaches to security of microservice architectures
Before Cloud Computing there was a well-defined security perimeter that was protected by a traditional Firewall appliance and services and data were (assumed to be) safe. With the advent of Cloud Computing, ...

CIS Docker Security Guidance Plus Halo Helps DevOps Shops Harden Docker Implementations
As of April 29th of this year, the Center for Internet Security (CIS) has released its Docker v1.6 Benchmark v1.0, a security guidance for industry professionals seeking to secure their Docker v1.6 ...

The Security dilemma of Docker Hub
Docker Hub is an online repository for developers to share and collaborate on containers. It is a great service with tremendous potential to empower developers to work more efficiently and create incrementally ...

VMware’s Project Bonneville streamlines Docker container workflow
Earlier this week VMware shared news about Project Bonneville at DockerCon. Project Bonneville is a native container solution developed for VMware’s hypervisor to integrate Docker containers more tightly in the virtual infrastructure ...

Embrace Docker containers without compromising on security
Containers are the next big thing when it comes to DevOps and rapid application development. The concept of containers has taken off thanks in no small part to Docker, but for many ...