Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference Europe 2020

Cloud-Native computing is the hottest trend in the cloud ecosystem and is increasingly becoming the new norm for application development and deployment. At the core of Cloud-Native Computing infrastructure are containers and with the increasing adoption of it along with the scale of deployments, security becomes an important aspect of the adoption strategy. Of the 4C's of Cloud-Native Security, containers are one of the security layers.

The sesion will provide an introduction to Container Security covering the challenges & risks around containers and various tools that can be leveraged for implementing container security. The presentation starts with an overview of cloud-native security but focuses on container security, the challenges that come with using containers. In this session you will be introduced to the type of threats in scope and some of the container vulnerabilities that are out there. You will get an introduction to various tools (mostly open source) that can be used to provide a layer of protection for your containers.