Containers offer a resource and configuration abstraction that help businesses improve efficiency and lower ownership costs beyond mainframes, server blades, virtualization and cloud architectures.
As will any new technology, however, manageability and security are major concerns. This practical guide from Bitdefender aims to educate the uninitiated on container security, diving into how containers work and offering advice on how to effectively secure a host.
It explains why the options for hosting and managing containers vary significantly depending on the desired level of control and preferred underlying architectures, as well as the vulnerabilities of container orchestration and repositories. Also, discover how securing container hosts provides many underlying services to the containers themselves and presents an attack vector.
While the intrinsic connectivity between containers and underlying operating systems has created a perception of insecurity, there are security benefits to be gained, with the container model generally resulting in a more distributed application architecture as insecure containers can be replaced faster and with greater ease.
Download this practical guide to find out:
- What the building blocks of a container ecosystems are.
- Why container orchestration and repositories come with risks and how to overcome them.
- How to create a solid security strategy for a container environment.