Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Kata Containers is an open source project that seeks to enhance security for containers by isolating them in lightweight VMs. Each Kata Container runs with the speed and flexibility of standard containers, and it easily integrates with common container management software—including Docker and Kubernetes.

As of August 2023, only 3 out of 23 US government agencies were compliant with Office of Management and Budget (OMB) requirements for log management and security observability. These requirements are outlined in M-21-31, a 2021 memorandum that was issued following Executive Order 14028 on improving national cybersecurity. Until all of these agencies implement the new requirements, the federal government’s ability to fully detect, investigate, and remediate cybersecurity threats will be constrained.

Network security services like Google Cloud Armor enable you to filter incoming traffic so that you can prevent attacks from overwhelming your system or from reaching critical components of your application. However, these services often handle threats automatically, making it difficult to gain visibility into attempted security breaches.

Mitigating application vulnerabilities throughout the software development life cycle (SDLC) is critical—and challenging, especially as applications rely more and more on third-party, open source software (OSS). With this type of architecture, teams often don’t know exactly where vulnerabilities exist in their code, which of those vulnerabilities are actively exposed in production services, and which vulnerabilities are more critical to address than others.

Editor’s note: Jeremy Garcia, VP of Technical Community and Open Source at Datadog, explains why fostering an organization-wide culture and practice of DevSecOps is essential for deploying resilient, secure applications and services. Over the past decade, DevSecOps has become a popular buzzword in the tech industry.