The qualities and capabilities I look for in a container security solution include:
Flexible integration: Evaluate the vendors’ ability to support integration with various tools. Ask if the vendor provides a rich API. Ask if it offers out-of-the-box plugins for tools used in your organization.
Fits into your entire ecosystem of security tools: Securing each container and its image is critical, but don’t ignore the rest of the container ecosystem. The orchestration platform, cloud environment, and container host all represent attractive vectors for threat actors.
Security automation: This should be a mandatory capability for quickly protecting and updating containers across the entire environment whenever new risks are identified.
Runtime threat protection: Don't focus only on pre-runtime security. As zero-day attacks continue to develop into more elusive and persistent dangers, automated runtime threat protection, detection, and response are essential for container systems.
Kubernetes security posture management: For CISOs, improving visibility into Kubernetes workloads, developer activity, and rules configurations should be at the top of your agenda when selecting a container security solution.
Covers the entire application lifecycle: Containers need to be secured from the very beginning of development, through testing, and into deployment (where enterprise applications are most vulnerable without thorough security).
Stands up to stringent compliance mandates: Continually meeting the data security requirements laid out by government and industry regulations necessitates a solution strategy that ensures security policies are followed and offer adequate compliance reporting.
Stops unknown vulnerabilities: Known threats are one thing, but any container security strategy must also be able to protect sensitive data from zero day attacks, insider threats, and any vulnerabilities that don’t yet have a patch available.
Doesn’t slow down app development: Security is critical, but it cannot slow down application development.
Meets your current cloud requirements: When evaluating container tooling, base selection criteria on current cloud requirements, not legacy IT best practices.
Platform should be mature and evolving: You also need to consider the maturity of the platform and the company that supports it. Security threats are constantly evolving. Understanding and evolving to meet those risks requires a long-term commitment.
Robust visibility: To really understand and improve your security risk, you need to have visibility into all these different components. And if you do have a security incident, you need to be able to analyze data from every component in one place to find and respond to the threat.
Integrates with a broad range of native solutions: For functions such as secrets management, the product you choose should integrate with a broad range of native solutions that developers may already be using.
Meets the scale and geographic diversity of your business: Work with vendors focused on security that can meet the scale and geographic diversity of your organization.
Integrates with other security vendors: Security is a team game. For external security, it is unlikely a single solution will meet all your needs (from secrets management to code scanning), so try to find vendors that integrate with each other.
Container image scanning and vulnerability management: DevOps teams leverage image scanning to get visibility into what’s running in the production environment and see what vulnerabilities exist. Security teams can then review the image that is currently in use and rank vulnerabilities according to their severity.
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The qualities and capabilities I look for in a container security solution include:
Flexible integration: Evaluate the vendors’ ability to support integration with various tools. Ask if the vendor provides a rich API. Ask if it offers out-of-the-box plugins for tools used in your organization.
Fits into your entire ecosystem of security tools: Securing each container and its image is critical, but don’t ignore the rest of the container ecosystem. The orchestration platform, cloud environment, and container host all represent attractive vectors for threat actors.
Security automation: This should be a mandatory capability for quickly protecting and updating containers across the entire environment whenever new risks are identified.
Runtime threat protection: Don't focus only on pre-runtime security. As zero-day attacks continue to develop into more elusive and persistent dangers, automated runtime threat protection, detection, and response are essential for container systems.
Kubernetes security posture management: For CISOs, improving visibility into Kubernetes workloads, developer activity, and rules configurations should be at the top of your agenda when selecting a container security solution.
Covers the entire application lifecycle: Containers need to be secured from the very beginning of development, through testing, and into deployment (where enterprise applications are most vulnerable without thorough security).
Stands up to stringent compliance mandates: Continually meeting the data security requirements laid out by government and industry regulations necessitates a solution strategy that ensures security policies are followed and offer adequate compliance reporting.
Stops unknown vulnerabilities: Known threats are one thing, but any container security strategy must also be able to protect sensitive data from zero day attacks, insider threats, and any vulnerabilities that don’t yet have a patch available.
Doesn’t slow down app development: Security is critical, but it cannot slow down application development.
Meets your current cloud requirements: When evaluating container tooling, base selection criteria on current cloud requirements, not legacy IT best practices.
Platform should be mature and evolving: You also need to consider the maturity of the platform and the company that supports it. Security threats are constantly evolving. Understanding and evolving to meet those risks requires a long-term commitment.
Robust visibility: To really understand and improve your security risk, you need to have visibility into all these different components. And if you do have a security incident, you need to be able to analyze data from every component in one place to find and respond to the threat.
Integrates with a broad range of native solutions: For functions such as secrets management, the product you choose should integrate with a broad range of native solutions that developers may already be using.
Meets the scale and geographic diversity of your business: Work with vendors focused on security that can meet the scale and geographic diversity of your organization.
Integrates with other security vendors: Security is a team game. For external security, it is unlikely a single solution will meet all your needs (from secrets management to code scanning), so try to find vendors that integrate with each other.
Container image scanning and vulnerability management: DevOps teams leverage image scanning to get visibility into what’s running in the production environment and see what vulnerabilities exist. Security teams can then review the image that is currently in use and rank vulnerabilities according to their severity.
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@SudinBaraokar Those are certainly features that a potential user should look for.
Hi @ZvikaRonen, @RommelViloria, @Vishal Chaudhary and @Sean McElroy,
Can you please share your thoughts about this question by @Dovid Gelber?