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Continuous container security

Continuous container security

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Continuous container security

- Containers are becoming very popular in the development world. If teams aren't currently using containers, they're talking about it. Containers can be tricky to secure so let's talk about what a container is, what parts we can secure, and then what parts continuous application security plays. This is a diagram of a typical application architecture on virtual machines. It has a VM host, multiple virtual machines for each server in the app, and then the different components and libraries that make up the application. It is usually very much a manual setup across each machine to get the application running. When containers are brought into the picture, it simplifies the deployment. On one machine, you have a container host. And each container is a package application. When you want to redeploy the app, you simply redeploy the container, and it's already configured and ready to go. It makes deployment between environment…

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