One of the most important pillars of a well-architected framework is security. Thus, it is important to follow these AWS security best practices to prevent unnecessary security situations. So, you’ve got a problem to solve and turned to AWS to build and host your solution. You create your account and now you’re all set up to brew some coffee and sit down at your workstation to architect, code, build, and deploy. Except, you aren’t.
At CloudCasa, as a cloud-native backup-as-a-service provider, we are often dealing with customer concerns about the security and privacy of their data. Sometimes the concern is almost paradoxical because the data and application they are protecting is publicly accessible and running inside the public cloud. However, there are times when organizations use public cloud infrastructure with a network architecture that resembles a private cloud.
As more and more applications and application development move to the cloud, traditional security roles and organizational structures are being shaken up. Why is that and what are the benefits of a cloud-first approach for business?
Modern microservices applications built using containers are complex — often requiring complex authorization solutions, due to the sheer number of access possibilities involved. Indeed, as IT infrastructure has migrated to the cloud, along with the applications running on it, security and privacy concerns have only increased. As microservice applications became ubiquitous, open-source authorization tools have come to the fore for many organizations.
When scanning an image you probably want to scan for both operating system vulnerabilities and vulnerabilities in the application dependencies (like npm, pom.xml, package.json etc), in order to get a full picture of the security issues within your images. Until now, when using the Snyk Container test/monitor commands to scan images you had to specify the --app-vulns flag in order to scan for application vulnerabilities.
The principle of least privilege (PoLP) is a defensive strategy in the software development world. Alternatively called the principle of minimal privilege or the principle of least authority, PoLP ensures that users can only access the systems, processes, networks, and files required to complete their assigned tasks. When properly configured, unauthorized users can’t navigate to restricted application functions or switch roles.
Containers are a standardized software packaging format that provides a predictable, replicable way to run applications. Container isolation is one of the primary benefits of containerized applications. Using containers enables us to isolate our software from its environment, increasing consistency and reliability across our development and staging environments. You’re probably familiar with — or are using — Docker containers.
This article is intended to summarize the security services and tools provided by Microsoft for Azure cloud. We will also explore the value add Sysdig can provide when used in conjunction with the default Azure services for security.
The world of software development moves fast, and it's constantly evolving. Containerization technologies, especially Docker, are among today's most preferred virtualization technologies. Although Docker containers are "sufficiently" secure by default, configuration errors in a Dockerfile might lead to critical security risks or degraded system performance.
Whether you’re learning cloud-native workload protection for the first time or running all your microservice workloads in production, you probably already noticed that cloud-native security is much different from security design used for traditional monolith applications. The dramatic increase in complexity and the evolving threat landscape make cloud and container security even more critical and harder to manage.
