10 Ways Cloud-Native Development Changes Cybersecurity

April 20, 2023 – Published on Cloud Native Now

As more organizations today transition to cloud-native development patterns, cybersecurity teams are scrambling to keep up. Cloud-native infrastructure, applications and developer workflows fundamentally change cybersecurity in so many ways.

These changes offer an opportunity to achieve application security gains that risk advocates have been championing for well over a decade. But the transition to cloud-native security is going to demand new tooling and a different mindset for AppSec and security operations, which will take many cybersecurity professionals out of their comfort zone.

Cloud-native applications, infrastructure and data flows increase complexity for organizations, which consequently introduces a lot more places that attackers can pick apart, says Kristen Bell, director of application security engineering for GuidePoint Security.

“With the increase in microservices and APIs, data flows are more complex. There is more integration between applications and systems,” Bell says. “All of this leads to a larger attack surface and more intricacies to consider from a security perspective. In conjunction with these changes, we have seen an increase in the number of emerging privacy laws requiring the geolocation of data.”

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