Microservices Application Security Archives

In DevOps

How to easily protect any Kubernetes application?

July 23, 2020 8 Mins Read

The king of container orchestration needs the best security companion: Wallarm WAF. When it comes to speed, portability, and the advantages of microservices architecture, no other product can compete with Kubernetes as a container orchestrator. Nevertheless, even the best solutions have challenges, and security is always one of these. According to the CNCF’s Cloud Native Landscape, today the market offers more than 100 tools to manage containers, but 89% of the software architects, DevOps managers,…

In API Security

Is Service Mesh right for your infrastructure?

November 7, 2019 8 Mins Read

Andrew Jenkins of Aspen Mesh identifies three deployment options with regards to how a Service Mesh delivers its services:

As a sidecar that runs alongside your microservice container
As a library that can be built into each of the microservices
As an agent that sit in the container infrastructure and provide the service to all the containers on that node

In API Security

What DevOps trends to follow (and what to ignore)

October 24, 2019 17 Mins Read

Cut through the fluff and get to the heart of which DevOps trends are worth hitching your wagon (or budget) to in the coming years—and which should be marked with a hazard warning. From containers to chaos engineering, here are the DevOps trends to trash and the ones you’ll want to go fanboy on.”

In Cloud Security

Shift to Microservices: Evolve Your Security Practices & Container Security

October 16, 2019 11 Mins Read

Understand the best practices of shifting left to change your DevOps into DevSecOps. Your security health will get a serious boost.

In Web Application Security

Happy graduation, Envoy!

November 29, 2018 3 Mins Read

Envoy, the new darling of the DevOps community, performs the role of a service and edge proxy. With advanced features such as timeouts, rate limiting, circuit breaking, load balancing, retries, stats, logging, and distributed tracing are required to handle network failures in a fault tolerant and reliable way it’s a solid choice as an API gateway and/or to manage communications among microservices in order to ensure application performance. Envoy’s out-of-process architecture can be used with…

In Web Application Security

Wallarm Kong WAF. Better Protection for Micro-services and API.

September 20, 2018 2 Mins Read

Thousands of companies from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises use Kong as their API gateway. With a blazingly fast performance, it comes with a perfect feature set for everyone who manages microservices, APIs or serverless stack. Today, we’re thrilled to be a launching partner of Kong Hub. Kong Hub is a marketplace of plugins and modules created by the open-source community and commercial partners that was launched and announced today at the very first Kong…