Cloud Workload Protection Platforms(CWPP) Security - irrespective of the Service providers

CWPP Essential Requirements (Cloud Workload Protection Platforms)

Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPPs), which are now part of the emerging category of Cloud Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPPs), are designed to secure various types of cloud workloads deployed in public, hybrid, or multi-cloud environments, such as VMs, containers, and serverless functions. The main capabilities and architectural factors that purchasers must assess while securing cloud workloads, as defined by Gartner, are discussed in this blog.

Among Gartner's suggestions, security and risk experts should:

Secure workloads sooner by extending workload scanning and compliance efforts into development (DevSecOps), which is especially important for container-based and serverless function platform as a service (PaaS)-based development and deployment.

Require CWPP products to cover physical machines, virtual machines, containers, and serverless operations, all of which can be controlled from a single interface from any place. The future of most business data centers is hybrid, multi-cloud architecture.

Make container protection capabilities a CWPP assessment requirement. Make explicit support of this environment a requirement if you're utilizing Kubernetes and contemplating a managed Kubernetes service.

Vendors of CWPP should be required to provide CSPM/KSPM capabilities.

CWPP protection solutions will change to a zero-trust philosophy with immutable architecture, focusing on application control and container lockdown (default deny/zero trust) during runtime, with a larger emphasis on vulnerability screening before deployment.

Let's go through these cloud security requirements and how we need to handle them.

CI/CD Shift to the Left as soon as possible

Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) is becoming the standard for IT teams, while containers and microservices give tremendous speed and flexibility. Because of the increasing rate at which new code is pushed out, improved management of the attack surface is required, as well as implementing security earlier in the development phase, so that security vulnerabilities may be spotted and resolved fast before applications are launched.

Container Scanner scans container images, VM images, and functions for known vulnerabilities, embedded secrets, malware, configuration errors, and over-provisioned rights, and integrates directly into the CI pipeline, as well as into registries or function stores. Scanning software like Snyk or White source bolt (Threat Analysis Software) also "shifts left" incident response by detecting and preventing pictures with concealed malware that elude static scanning from being distributed in production systems.

Native Container with Serverless Function Controls

The architecture of cloud-native is fundamentally different. Older security solutions rely on host-based agents and network-based controls that lack the application context and control points that the new stack provides. It is impossible to identify and respond to attacks effectively without these skills. Container Scanners are mostly built from the ground up for containers and serverless, giving DevOps complete insight and control over workload activities throughout its lifespan while being transparent and unobtrusive. Scanning Software provides security controls that follow the workload wherever it runs, whether it's a container or a function, thanks to specific instrumentation for each type of workload. This allows for granular security that does not interrupt program continuity and is performance-optimized.

Providing transparency across all workloads

Almost every cloud native corporate deployment these days includes numerous sorts of workloads, which are typically spread over multiple or hybrid clouds and managed by different platforms (e.g., Red Hat OpenShift but also Tanzu Application Service -> VM ware Solution).

DevOps and ITSM Transparency Helps Achieve Excellent Customer Experience

Hopefully, this post has given you a better understanding of where DevOps and ITSM intersect, why silos must be broken down, and how working with one or several providers may be particularly difficult. I hope I've also offered some history on the numerous best practices, frameworks, and philosophies that are most commonly employed, as well as how they share commonalities. Breaking down divisions is what radical transparency entails, and it may improve your customer experience.

Finally, let me summarize:

Ascertain that all parties have a single goal and are working together to achieve it.

Disseminate essential information. All of the terms above are important: share to achieve radical transparency, which is important because you don't want to overwhelm people with information that isn't useful to them, and sharing too much may overwhelm them. Only provide pertinent information so that everyone may concentrate on the same goal.

If you achieve all of this, you will be able to provide more value to your clients, resulting in an exceptional customer experience.