Guide to cloud container security risks and best practices

Cloud containers are a hot topic, especially in security. Technology giants Microsoft, Google and Facebook all use them. Google uses containers for everything it runs, totaling several billion each week.

The past decade has seen containers anchoring a growing number of production environments. This shift reflects the modularization of DevOps, enabling developers to adjust separate features without affecting the entire application. Containers promise a streamlined, easy-to-deploy and secure method to implement specific infrastructure requirements and are a lightweight alternative to VMs.

Let's examine the evolution of containers and discuss why cloud container security can't be overlooked.