Securing Cloud-Native Applications

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Editor’s Note: The following is an article written for and published in DZone’s 2021 Application Security Trend Report.


Organizations are rapidly embracing cloud-native design patterns to modernize their business operations and enable faster time to market. Cloud-native architecture combines technologies like microservices, containers, automated CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration, unified observability, and cloud infrastructure. However, modern-day cloud computing services face security risks like data breaches, application vulnerabilities, account hijacking, insecure APIs, malicious insiders, data loss, denial of service, and insufficient credential management.

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