Cloud-Native Security
Backslash Security Unveils Tool to Visualize Cloud-Native Code Flows
Backslash Security emerged from stealth today to provide IT teams with a visual tool that identifies workflows in cloud-native code that could lead to a security breach. Fresh from raising $8 million ...
DevSecOps Use Cases for AI-Assisted Kubernetes
As indicated in my blog DevOps Use Cases for AI-Assisted Kubernetes, an AI-assisted Kubernetes orchestrator has a number of different use cases to optimize cloud costs for DevOps, DevSecOps and SRE. This ...
Ermetic Adds Kubernetes Support to CNAPP
Ermetic has added Kubernetes support to its cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) that enables IT and cybersecurity teams to discover and fix misconfigurations, compliance violations and risky or excessive privileges. Amy Ariel, ...
Advanced Container Security: Auto-Benchmarking, Pentesting, XDR and More
Container security refers to the set of practices, tools and technologies used to secure containerized applications and the underlying infrastructure they run on. This includes securing the container images and runtime environment, ...
Cybersecurity in Cloud-Native Environments
The rapid adoption of the cloud has broadened the horizons for businesses embarking on a digital transformation journey, and organizations are swiftly taking the leap to cloud-native applications that are built using ...
Tigera Looks to Secure Kubernetes Runtime Environments
Tigera today added a Calico Runtime Threat Defense platform for securing Kubernetes runtimes using a combination of signature and behavior-based techniques. Utpal Bhatt, chief marketing officer for Tigera, says this latest addition ...
Just-in-Time Permissions in Microservices-Based Applications
In a previous article, we discussed keeping microservices secure, even from themselves. But what else can you do to keep your application free of vulnerabilities that could be exploited by bad actors? ...
Using the Kubernetes Lens Dashboard to Boost Kubernetes Security
Kubernetes security is a complex challenge. Luckily, new open source tools are springing up to help address it. I’ll discuss a new, popular tool called Kubernetes Lens, which is making Kubernetes clusters ...
CNCF to Add Another Security Certification
At the CloudNative SecurityCon North America 2023 conference today, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced that it will release a Kubernetes and cloud security associate (KCSA) certification. The KCSA certification will ...
Red Hat OpenShift Update Extends Reach of Operators for Kubernetes
Red Hat today released updates to the Kubernetes-based Red Hat OpenShift platform, adding Operators to simplify security, compliance and networking. In addition, Red Hat is adding support for instances of Arm processors ...
