Container Security Assessment

What Is Container Security Assessment?

Container security shields containerized applications and their frameworks at all lifecycle phases, from development to distribution and duration. This incorporates vulnerability scanning, structure management, security access, network segmentation, and monitoring.

Container security targets capitalize on the advantages of application segregation while reducing the risks associated with resource sharing and potential attack surfaces. By deploying the best practices and employing specific safety measures, organizations can safeguard their container environment from unsanctioned access and data breaches while guaranteeing compliance with industry regulations.

Best practices for container security

Container security is more than one solution. It's an approach that begins with the container's construction and extends to its evaluation, including runtime assessment, risk analysis, and contents. Check out this checklist to help guide organizations through container security.

Keep it slim. Developers should delete useless components to lower the attack surface of an application.

Only use trusted base images. In organization CI/CD processes, businesses should only allow developers to use pictures that have been scanned and found trustworthy.

Harden the organization’s host operating system. Configure hosts based on CIS standards. Contemplate using Linux distributions planned precisely for hosting containers such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host and CoreOS.

Remove privileges. Running containers with restricted access risks organizational infrastructure because it allows malicious users to gain control over the host system.

Supervise the application during runtime. To eliminate incorrect detections, organizations must use a product that detects vulnerabilities at runtime, such as Application Security by Ajax Network Solutions. Ajax Network Solutions’s application supervision platform is not only capable of detecting vulnerabilities but also helps organizations manage and monitor application performance and reliability.

At Ajax Network Solutions, our services include vulnerability scanning, system configuration, security access, network segmentation, and supervision. The primary goal of Container security is to  maximize the fundamental benefits of application isolation while minimizing risks linked to the sharing of resources and the possibility of attack.