Cloud Native Challenges
The challenges we help you solve
Cloud native ways of working bring speed and scale — and a new set of security challenges. These are the four we are asked about most, and the ones we know how to solve.
Accelerating Delivery
Accelerate your delivery with SecureRoute. Here's the challenge…
- Faster delivery demands
- Your teams need to push code from development into production as fast as possible. The pressure to deliver new features and releases doesn't currently allow for security to be a priority.
- Code checks
- Checking your code quickly and to the required standards requires automation. The amount of code your teams are creating, and the frequency of updates, makes it impossible to check manually.
- Integrations
- You also need your security tools to integrate with your development pipelines. Getting this right is vital to avoid either a backlog of checks or a lack of checks performed.
SecureRoute can show you the right way to balance these complex challenges. Our experts help your teams integrate diverse technologies, maintain robust security protocols and keep communication consistent across cross-functional teams — and, with the relentless pace of technological change, we enable them to adapt to new tools and practices.
Reducing Costs
The costs associated with securing your code can be extreme, and this can be a huge barrier to adoption of secure development practices.
- Manual checks don't scale
- Manual security checks of applications are labour intensive, expensive, and may allow an application to be exploited for long periods prior to detection.
- Shift left, spend less
- Issues detected earlier in the development or release process are far easier and cheaper to fix than those discovered once in production.
Our proven methods will show you how to reduce your development costs while improving your security posture. No tricks, no gimmicks — just engineers showing (and proving) how this can work in your business.
Reducing Risk
No application is 100% secure. Cloud native applications require additional tools, process and integration with your business to allow you to understand and remediate your risks.
- Innovation
- Your business needs to innovate to compete, and your software teams need to move fast. The challenge is balancing that pace of change with the security your business demands.
- Compliance goals
- Your drive to reduce risk may come from regulatory requirements, or from preventing the reputational harm that follows an exploit or breach.
- Detect and remediate
- You need the tools and processes to identify and address vulnerabilities in your code, your infrastructure and your running workloads.
We help you put the right tools, processes and business integration in place to understand your risks — and fix the ones that matter.
Managing Containers
Containers let your teams develop rapidly and deploy through orchestration platforms like Kubernetes — but managing cloud native apps can become a burden without the right controls.
- Malware
- Thousands of images hosted on common public repositories contain malware. What is preventing your teams from using them?
- Security vulnerabilities
- More than half of all public images contain at least one critical vulnerability. How are you protecting your supply chain, and how do you remediate what you find?
- Configuration errors
- Misconfigurations are a huge problem, and can expose your organization to risk without necessarily slowing your teams down — which is exactly why they go unnoticed.
We help you put the guardrails in place: trusted image sources, supply chain protection, vulnerability remediation and configuration policies that keep your teams fast and your workloads safe.
Can we help you on your next project?
Tell us what you are trying to achieve — we'll tell you honestly whether and how we can help.
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