For organizations and their employees, 2020 was a uniquely transformative and challenging year. Although this reality is expressed in many ways—including a global pandemic, a deep economic recession, perpetual social unrest and a litany of natural disasters—in the professional environment, it is most acutely observed in the rapid and wide-spread transition to remote work.

The rapid rate of change in attack methods and techniques in today’s cybersecurity landscape has made the keeping of an environment secure increasingly more difficult, causing many to fall into a dangerous state of simply reacting to current threats.

In the aftermath of the notorious SolarWinds breach, occurring in mid-December 2020, a nefarious website was observed on 12 January 2021 and, presumably linked to the threat actors involved in the original supply chain attacks, purports to offer stolen data from four victim companies for sale: Other than the above, no file listings, screenshots or detailed 'proof' have been provided although links to four encrypted archive files, one for each potential victim organization, were uploaded to the popular

The fourth annual Sysdig container security and usage report looks at how global Sysdig customers of all sizes and industries are using and securing container environments. By examining how and when organizations are implementing security in the development lifecycle, we have been able to uncover some interesting data points in this year’s report. For example, we can see that 74% of organizations are scanning container images in the build process.