Security News > 2020 > February > Next Cloud Security Challenge: Containers and Kubernetes

The increasing use of containers and orchestration tools, such as Kubernetes, are driving demand for new cloud security and application deployment processes, according to research from the Cloud Security Alliance presented Monday at the RSA 2020 conference in San Francisco.

"As we have seen with the use of containers and micro-services and compliance, when you further segment things off, there's a functionality benefit from that," Yeoh tells Information Security Media Group.

Some container environments will be used to host the most sensitive data, so the challenge is that default security settings and access controls may not be appropriate, Yeoh says.

"We're seeing more and more people do that in cloud environments. It's a way to make sure that developers are held accountable. You see security teams whose jobs have changed to where they are creating checklists are securely developed."

The Cloud Security Alliance hosted a number of sessions at the RSA 2020 conference on Monday that touched on privacy and the cloud.

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