What Is Cloud-Native Security?

Cloud-native security integrates security principles directly into cloud-native applications and infrastructure, designed for the dynamic, scalable environment of the cloud. It doesn't wait for perimeter-based defenses or the same old traditional barriers; instead, it adapts to a model wherein every component of the stack of the cloud is potentially a point of vulnerability.

4C’s Of Cloud-Native Security 

Code

Container

Cluster

Cloud

Security is deeply embedded - From application code, runtime to cloud resources like containers, Kubernetes clusters, and serverless functions.

The major factors involved are real-time threat detection, policy enforcement, and automatic management of configurations that would provide the same security posture across distributed environments.  

In addition to this, microservices tools on security monitor individual services' anomalous behavior, while DevSecOps integrates into continuous delivery pipelines to address vulnerabilities well ahead in the development chain.

Apart from protection against a data breach, it implements compliance by automating checks and following cloud security frameworks. This approach is agile and scalable, in keeping up with the speed and difficulty of modern cloud environments.