As containers take off, so do security concerns

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http://www.csoonline.com/article/2984543/vulnerabilities/as-containers-take-off-so-do-security-concerns.html

By Maria Korolov
CSO
Sep 17, 2015

Containers offer a quick and easy way to package up applications and all 
their dependencies, and are popular with testing and development.

According to a recent survey sponsored by container data management 
company Cluster HQ, 73 percent of enterprises are currently using 
containers for development and testing, but only 39 percent are using them 
in a production environment.

But this is changing, with 65 percent saying that they plan to use 
containers in production in the next 12 months, and cited security as 
their biggest worry. According to the survey, just over 60 percent said 
that security was either a major or a moderate barrier to adoption.

Containers can be run within virtual machines or on traditional servers. 
The idea is somewhat similar to that of a virtual machine itself, except 
that while a virtual machine includes a full copy of the operating system, 
a container does not, making them faster and easier to load up.

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