BrainBlog for Kasten by Jason English
Spend any time at a security show or engrossed in the nonstop stream of bad news about costly ransomware attacks and data loss, and you will start to see such looming events as inevitable disasters.
After all, if you manage any production-grade cloud application that’s worth something to customers or the business, it’s also worth something to bad actors who can profit by threatening to bring it down.
While cloud vendors and organizations can prepare defenses with perimeter security, threat detection and SoC tooling to scan for known attack vectors, hackers are motivated to come up with novel approaches that systems haven’t yet dealt with. New “day-zero” attacks can be worth a fortune to the inventor on the black market.
In such an endless conflict, the number and style of attack attempts can be infinite, and therefore we can expect at least one of these day-zero disasters to find a way to infiltrate our critical applications and associated data, as well as the production infrastructure that supports it.
Enter a new paradigm for building applications. Cloud native computing abstracts away some of the challenges of protecting networks and data. Kubernetes introduced truly distributed and scalable container orchestration that could separate compute workloads from data storage as seemingly stateless microservices.
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