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Organizations are increasingly incorporating containers and Kubernetes into their IT infrastructure. As reported by ZDNet, Flexera’s “2020 State of the Cloud Report” found that about two-thirds (65%) of organizations were using Docker and that another 14% intended to begin using it at some point. Slightly fewer organizations (58%) were using Kubernetes at the time of the survey, by comparison, with 22% of participants saying they planned to adopt it.
Even so, misconfigurations with both containers and Kubernetes are posing a problem. StackRox’s “State of Kubernetes and Container Security Winter 2020” report found that nearly all (94%) of respondents had experienced a security incident in their container environments over the past 12 months, per Security magazine’s coverage. The majority (69%) of those security events amounted to a misconfiguration incident, followed by runtime issues and vulnerabilities at 27% and 24%, respectively. In keeping…
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Posted by: David Bisson |
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September 22, 2020 at 09:09PM
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