Assessing the Current State of Container Security

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Any rational organization that wishes to run mission-critical services on containers will at some point ask the question: “But is it secure? Can we really trust containers with our data and applications?”

Amongst tech folks, this often leads to a containers versus virtual machines (VMs) debate and a discussion of the protection provided by the hypervisor layer in VMs. While this can be an interesting and informative discussion, containers versus VMs is a false dichotomy; concerned parties should simply run their containers inside VMs, as currently happens on most cloud providers.

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