/PRNewswire/ Snyk, the leader in cloud native application security, today announced its acquisition of FossID, a software composition analysis tool that.
Misconfigs and Unpatched Bugs Top Cloud Native Security Incidents
Phil Muncaster UK / EMEA News Reporter , Infosecurity Magazine
The open source security firm’s first ever
State of Cloud Native Application Security Report revealed that adoption of cloud native techniques is soaring, with over 78% of production workloads now deployed as containers or serverless applications.
However, this comes with its own risks: 60% of developers have had increased security concerns since going cloud native, the report claimed.
Misconfiguration (45%) and known unpatched bugs (38%) were the most commonly experienced security incidents, with misconfiguration (58%) and insecure APIs (52%) topping the list of respondents’ concerns.
“Cloud native platforms utilizing automated tooling rely on credentials such as secrets and API tokens in order to operate, necessitating a more decentralized approach to managing such access,” the report noted. “The need for e
Cloud native computing adoption sees increase in security concerns 05 May 2021
While cloud native adoption has transformed the way organisations build modern applications, it has also resulted in increased security threats and concerns, according to new research by Snyk.
Snyk s inaugural State of Cloud Native Application Security Report found that more than half of companies surveyed experienced a security incident due to misconfiguration or a known vulnerability in their cloud native applications, and developers are three times more likely to view security as their responsibility versus their security peers. It also found deploying automation makes it 17 times more likely that security tests run daily or more frequently.