Breaking Down the Complexity of Cloud Native Security for Leadership

This article was originally published at: https://www.magalix.com/blog/breaking-down-the-complexity-of-cloud-native-security-for-leadership

Overview

One of the most challenging aspects of implementing a secure Cloud-Native environment is keeping up with the constant rate of change. As your teams gain familiarity and momentum with the basics, keeping track of everything going in and out of your stack becomes overwhelming and unmanageable. Besides, the Cloud-Native landscape itself is also constantly evolving making it extremely challenging to understand what to govern, and how to govern it. For those that are considering the push towards Cloud-Native, or even those that are well into their journey, Cloud-Native and Kubernetes have seemed to become synonymous with complexity. With so many moving pieces, custom integrations, and a plethora of 3rd party solutions available, developing and implementing a governance strategy can seem impossible. In parallel, securing your new environment will continue to increase in difficulty in what is an already steep learning curve.

Coverage

All journeys begin with a first step but without knowing which direction to head in you might find yourself stuck at a crossroads. Our journey begins with identifying all components, end to end, in need of governance. If we follow common DevOps practices, end to end in this context represents the chain of events that occur between the time…