As time goes on, a growing number of companies globally are going above and beyond in their digital transformation strategies compared to their rivals who have not yet explored the digital front as successfully. Because of this, security teams have more challenges as companies migrate and extend their apps and services across various clouds. These challenges range from corporate rules and financial restrictions to compliance penalties and new attack vectors. With more companies stepping up their digital transformation ambitions, there has also been a surge in the development of cloud-native applications.
Organizations must understand what security entails for each new layer of the application stack in order to better secure cloud-native applications. They must also understand that the entire development pipeline requires a security management toolkit.
In a perfect world, all cloud-native applications would secure every one of their endpoints and restrict access to only services or users with valid credentials. Every request for resources from an application should specify who is making it, their access role, and any privileges they may have.
The difficulty of keeping track of these assets, as well as the constantly changing nature of cloud resources, adds to the complexity. As they scale up, cloud-native solutions like serverless present new difficulties. In particular, serverless apps frequently have hundreds of functions, making it challenging to manage all this data and the services that utilize it as the program grows.
Due to this, resources must be immediately recognized as soon as they are produced and tracked through all modifications until they are no longer available.