Taking a Holistic Approach to Securing Cloud-Native Application Development

Organizations are faced with a new equation that includes numerous multipliers of application complexity. Traditional security challenges are amplified by challenges that are specific to cloud native applications such as the constant adoption of new developer tools, the implementation of new open source software libraries, the embedding of container images from unverified sources, the misconfiguration of public cloud parameters, limited visibility into the overall application, and the rapid release cadence. Finally, we need to factor in the distributed character of microservices applications, with separate development teams making different technology choices and following a different release schedule.