Best Practice Report

Best Practices For Container Security

Protecting Containerized Applications Requires Technical And Organizational Steps

August 2nd, 2021
Sandy Carielli, Principal Analyst
Sandy Carielli Principal Analyst
Andras Cser, Vice President, Principal Analyst
Andras Cser Vice President, Principal Analyst
With contributors:
Amy DeMartine , Melissa Bongarzone , Dave Bartoletti , Peggy Dostie

Summary

Container adoption is increasing, and security must come along for the ride. Organizations value the scalability and agility that containers offer, but containers introduce new security challenges that can’t be addressed with traditional tooling. To be successful, security pros must change their mindset about containers: they’re not VMs or hosts. Security leaders should read this report to discover technical and non-technical best practices that they can adopt to protect their containerized application environments.

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