Recent security events have highlighted the correlation between poor infrastructure and application visibility with increased network complexity and lack of automation. The versatility and availability of public-cloud offerings allow development and operations teams to create and update resources on-demand. In a matter of minutes, your organisation can create, remove, or modify virtual machine and container workloads, storage, databases, and user access. Organisations often struggle with limited levels of visibility of their network traffic, users, apps, services, and databases, leaving them vulnerable on many levels. To start, the complexity of some public-cloud resource settings creates hidden security risks. These risks can be amplified when you are deploying several new cloud services or updating existing resources.

According to Unit 42 The 2022 State of Cloud Native Security Report, "throughout the pandemic, there were significant expansions of cloud workloads overall, jumping to an average of 59% of workloads hosted in the cloud, up from an average of 46% in 2020. In addition, 69% of organisations host more than half of their workloads in the cloud, up from just 31%...in 2020." As a result, containerised applications hosted in Kubernetes are becoming mainstream. Depending on the application architecture, you can use microservices for small tasks where you create and subsequently destroy the microservices in a very brief amount of time. It is challenging to manage resources in this dynamic environment, so adding clarity across all the steps in the full application development lifecycle is necessary to ensure security and compliance. Automating this process is often the key to providing continuous visibility.

So are you planning to use Kubernetes to build your cloud native application? That's a smart idea, as the benefits they offer for network, runtime, register, orchestration and operating system security are time-and-labor savers appreciated by cloud native application developers.But how beneficial any emerging architecture is, cloud native apps only add value if they're secured, meaning that all components of the vast container environment you implement will need prevention.Join us for a Kubernetes security session focused on the top threats and countermeasures.