Cloud-Native Security
Rapid7 Acquires Alcide in Bid to Unify Security
Rapid7 this week announced it has acquired Alcide, a provider of a platform for securing Kubernetes, for $50 million as part of an effort to unify cybersecurity across multiple platforms. Brian Johnson, ...
Survey Sees Spike in Container Adoption on Kubernetes Platforms
A survey of 156 attendees at the recent virtual KubeCon North America 2020 conference suggests the rate at which containers are deployed on Kubernetes clusters is accelerating. The survey, conducted last November ...
Chaos Engineering Testing Correlates with Kubernetes Adoption
A survey of 400 IT professionals finds a high correlation between organizations that have adopted Kubernetes and those that have implemented chaos engineering techniques to ensure availability and decrease recovery times in ...
Red Hat Adds Data Protection to Container Storage Platform
Red Hat today announced its OpenShift Container Storage software now includes data protection capabilities. Pete Brey, marketing manager for hybrid cloud storage at Red Hat, says version 4.6 of Red Hat OpenShift ...
Fugue Cloud Security Adds Support for Container Runtimes
Fugue today announced it has extended its eponymous platform for securing cloud environments to include container runtime environments. Josh Stella, Fugue’s CEO, says it’s more cost effective for organizations to employ a ...
Accurics Applies Policy as Code to Secure Kubernetes Clusters
Accurics is employing policy as code to address a Kubernetes vulnerability, using its Terrascan tool for securing infrastructure as code. Terrascan is Accurics’ open source, static code analysis tool that allows developers to ...
Red Kubes Makes Community Edition of Kubernetes Configuration Platform Open Source
Red Kubes announced today it is making the community edition of the Otomi Container Platform available as an open source project. The Otomi Container Platform automates the deployment of a curated Kubernetes ...
New Year, More Kubernetes Vulnerabilities
Now that Kubernetes clusters are being deployed more widely in production environments, the level of attention being paid by cybersecurity researchers to a new platform in the enterprise will surely increase in ...
Containers Creating Major DevSecOps Challenge
Cyberattacks against containers have moved from being a potential cause for concern to an issue that will have a much greater material impact on the rate at which cloud-native applications are being ...
CyberArk Discloses Kubernetes Security Issues
CyberArk, a provider of privileged access management tools, published a report today detailing how weaknesses in the Container Network Interface (CNI) employed to connect Kubernetes Pods can be exploited by cybercriminals. Nir ...
