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Cloud native technologies have the potential to truly change the way we access and secure applications, but the success of this relies on the people and processes in place to handle the roll out of these technologies. This requires appropriate leadership, and decision makers within an organisation who demonstrate robust cloud security leadership are more …

4. Cloud-based services will come under increased attack Infrastructure as code (IaC), platform as a service, and software as a service will attract more attention than ever from attackers in 2021. Amir Jerbi, CTO of Aqua Security, a cloud application security provider, explained that, because DevOps increasingly uses IaC templates to automate provisioning of cloud-native platforms, …

“Our open source projects are all intended to be useful, standalone tools in their own right,” says Liz Rice, VP of open source engineering at Aqua Security. “We also incorporate them into our commercial platform, where they become part of a much more sophisticated and interconnected system, but we don’t hold back features from the open …

DevOps and DevSecOps will evolve into “platform teams” in many organizations, says Liz Rice, vice president of open source engineering at Aqua Security: “New ‘platform teams’ will take the lead on enterprises’ strategy for what historically been within the purview of cloud operations, security, and development tooling functions, to provide a higher-level abstraction to application …

New year, new cyberattacks? 2020 was a rollercoaster of a year, but what does 2021 have in store? We asked the cloud security experts at Aqua Security and Fugue for their predictions for 2021 and it looks like it’ll be another interesting year (hopefully more interesting and less “interesting”). Here’s what they had to say about Kubernetes, …

DevOps is a set of practices that looks to combine and automate the processes between software development and operational teams during an application life cycle. Although the current DevOps mindset is certainly an improvement on the traditional method of software development where the development and operations teams were kept separate, it could still do with …

4. More maturation of tools around Kubernetes Kubernetes is itself fundamentally an automation technology. As it matures and adoption continues growing, expect to see more automation built around Kubernetes and how teams use it. “2021 will see more automation around Kubernetes, specifically around the deployment process,” says Eran Bibi, director of DevOps and cloud platform …

CISOs will embrace DevSecOps methodologies. Cloud-native security will rise higher on the agenda for CISOs as their organizations embrace Kubernetes, serverless, and other cloud-native technologies. It’s a significant cultural shift to embed security within DevOps practices, but it’s necessary: Businesses are moving to the cloud so they can deliver new features quickly and at high frequency, and …