Container deployments are on the rise and expected to increase over the next 12 months. At the same time, container security incidents are rising exponentially. What types of security challenges are causing these events and, in turn, forcing organizations to delay application deployment?
Before answering, we need to understand why security challenges are currently emerging. Containers have been around since the early 2000s, yet developers didn’t begin using them until recently. Subsequently, organizations are only now beginning to realize their potential – and four areas that make container security uniquely tricky.