As more and more enterprises are adopting a cloud strategy or directly going into the cloud native platforms, Cloud Workload Protection (CWP) has become a huge pain point for enterprises. On top of that, lack of consensual definition on what these workloads mean and how it needs to be protected has exasperated the problem.

Securing Cloud-based workloads in the public cloud is one of the biggest challenges in every IT organization. While driving greater scalability, performance, and access for a competitive edge, it also introduces new security risks. More than just hosted data center infrastructure, public cloud offers the promise of agility, efficiency, and quality, inspiring new approaches to applications altogether―the intent of digital transformation initiatives. But as security vulnerabilities are exposed in breach after breach, this promise becomes more difficult to realize.

Key things to consider,

• Trust no one
• Accept temporary is the new permanent
• Read the Manual
• Guard the front door
• Embrace the chaos
• Test your security posture
• Be a business enabler
• Align with professionals
• Plan for tomorrow
• Understand the shared responsibility model

SecureIQLab believes that any capacity or work unit that is available on the cloud instance is a workload. It could be Websites, Apps, Storage, containers, collaboration tools, VMs, Network traffic etc.

SecureIQLab will be evaluating container security protecting workloads and the technology stack as part of it’s Cloud Workload Protection (CWP) Services.