As organizations use innovative technologies to optimize productivity and gain a competitive advantage, they have moved to cloud-native development processes to scale rapidly. However, it can be difficult for security teams to support enterprise applications that are often distributed across public and private cloud platforms and on-premises data centers. They need to ensure that they can consistently apply security controls to minimize security risk while rapidly detecting and responding to threats or attacks.
Also, as developers use continuous integration and continuous development (CI/CD) processes to quickly build, deploy, and update applications, security teams need to support them without slowing things down. But this is difficult because developers have moved to automated toolchains and processes when building their applications with microservices architectures using VMs, containers, serverless functions, and Kubernetes for orchestration. Security teams are challenged when supporting ephemeral assets across dynamic cloud environments because of the complexity and challenges in supporting rapid scale and growth. The higher volume and speed of releases means that it’s easy to deploy security issues across these complex environments