Hardened Containers Aren’t Enough: The Runtime Security Gap

We’ve come a long way from the days of shrink-wrapped software, where applications were developed in monolithic form and deployed on a single machine behind a locked data center door. Today’s systems are distributed, dynamic and elastic. They span clouds, data centers and edge environments. Software no longer lives in one place. It moves, updates and scales in real time. Security, in this new world, cannot be static. It must evolve with the runtime environment itself.

The hardened container image movement has brought welcome discipline to…