The evolution and future of cloud-native security

April 30, 2021

SD Times 

With the acquisition of my company, StackRox, by cloud-native technology vendor Red Hat, it seems like a good time to reflect on the state of cloud-native security.  Security in the cloud has been my life for the past five years, and it’s changed very quickly as new cloud-native platforms have taken over the industry.  We’ve had to create new tools and approaches to meet the new technologies and workflows of today’s cloud and will need to continue evolving them to meet the challenges of tomorrow’s.

Before we get into the future of cloud-native security, though, let’s look at where we started in the distant past of … seven years ago.