Ep 27 | 10.30.20

Securing containers and serverless functions.

Show Notes

Rick explains what containers and serverless functions are, why they are related, why they are the latest development in the evolution of the client server architecture, why you need to secure them, and how.

Resources:

“5 ways to secure your containers,” by Steven Vaughan-Nichols, CEO, Vaughan-Nichols & Associates, 23 April 2019.
“8 technologies that will disrupt business in 2020,” by Paul Heltzel, CIO, 26 August 2019.
“A Brief History of Containers: From the 1970s Till Now,” by Rani Osnat, Aqua, 10 January 2020.
“A brief history of SSH and remote access,” by Jeff Geerling, an excerpt from Chapter 11: Server Security and Ansible, in Ansible for DevOps, 15 April 2014.
“Amazon Launches Lambda, An Event-Driven Compute Service,” by Ron Miller, TC, 13 November 2014
“Application Container Security Guide: NIST Special Publication 800-190,” by Murugiah Souppaya, John Morello, and Karen Scarfone, NIST, September 2017.
“Container Explainer,” IDG.TV, 19 August 2015.
“Container Network Security - Kubernetes Network Policies in Action with Cilium (Cloud Native),” by Fernando, Gitlab, 16 July 2020.
“Container Security,” by Synk.
“Google has quietly launched its answer to AWS Lambda,” by Jordan Novet, Venture Beat, 9 February 2016.
“Historical Computers in Japan: Unix Servers,” IPSJ Computer Museum.
“M.C. Escher Collection,” Maurits Cornelis (MC) Escher - 1898 - 1972.
“Serverless Architectures,” by Martin Fowler, martin.Fowler.com, 22 May 2018.
“Serverless vs Microservices — Which Architecture to Choose in 2020?” TechMagic, 01 JULY 2020.
“The Benefits of Containers,” by Ben Corrie, VMWARE, 16 May 2017.
“The essential guide to software containers for application development,” by David Linthicum, Chief Cloud Strategy Officer, Deloitte Consulting.
“The Invention of the Virtual Machine,” by SEAN CONROY, IDKRTM, 25 JANUARY 2018.
“What are containers and why do you need them?” By Paul Rubens, CIO, 27 JUN 2017.
“What even is a container: namespaces and cgroups,” by Julia Evans, Julia Evans Blog.
“What is a Container?” by Ben Corrie, VMWARE, 16 May 2017
“What is a Container?” by VMWARE.

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Podcast Info

HOST(S):

Rick Howard is the CSO of N2K and the Chief Analyst, and Senior Fellow at the N2K Cyber, formerly CyberWire. His past lives include CSO at Palo Alto Networks, CISO at TASC, the GM at Verisign/iDefense, the Counterpane SOC Director, and the Commander of the Army's Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT). Rick served 25 years in the Army, taught computer science at West Point, edited two books and just published his own book, "Cybersecurity First Principles: A Reboot of Strategy and Tactics" and he is regularly joined at the N2K Cyber's Hash Table by a collection of industry experts.

Schedule: Mondays (in season)

Credits: Edited by John Petrik and executive produced by Peter Kilpe. Our theme song is by Blue Dot Sessions, remixed by the insanely talented Elliott Peltzman, who also does the show's mixing, sound, and original score

Creator: CyberWire, Inc.